The tourist who died in the Samaria gorge on Wednesday has been identified as a 32-year-old Ukrainian woman living in Germany, the state news agency reported on Thursday. amna.grclarifying the initially confusing information about the victim of the rockfall.
The woman was a member of a group hiking through the gorge. About the tragedy in the Samaria Gorge Athens News reported on Wednesday.
The rock broke loose and fell on a tree, and a sharp fragment flew off the rock and hit the woman's thigh, who breathed her last from continuous bleeding. A doctor-tourist, also a hiking enthusiast, was at the scene and rushed to give her first aid, but to no avail.
EMAK and EMODE forces rushed to the scene to transport the woman and 32 other people who were in the gorge on foot to avoid being trapped. Most of the trapped people went out to Agia Roumeli to be transported to Sfakia by boat. Firefighters and mountain rescue services arrived at the lower entrance of the gorge and retrieved the body of the woman, who was found unconscious.
Harsh weather and rain that hit the Chania region early Wednesday morning are believed to have caused the rock slide. According to the deputy regional governor for civil defense of Crete, George Tsapakis, a total of 300 tourists were trapped in the gorge. However, state broadcaster ERT confirmed that the number was 1,074.
The 10 tourists who spent the night in the gorge will be evacuated in 24 hours, on Thursday, September 19. According to ERT, they are residents of the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. They were reportedly unaware of the tragedy, but rescuers considered that it would be safer for them to spend the night there due to the bad weather conditions, despite the fact that they were mostly elderly people.
The Samaria Gorge will remain closed to visitors until the walls have been inspected and assessed. The Samaria Gorge in Crete is a popular hiking destination, especially in September and October, when the sweltering summer heat ends.
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