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An American tourist was found dead on the small Greek island of Mathraki on Sunday.
It’s just the latest case of several tourists who have died or gone missing in Greece this summer.
Another tourist found the American man close to the old port of Mathraki, which is near Corfu, according to AFP who pointed to local media reports.
The so-far unidentified American was reported missing on Thursday and was last seen alive at a tavern on Tuesday with two female tourists who later left the island.
The tourist was on Mathraki for a holiday and to stay with a Greek-American friend. The small island has a population of only about 100 people. It’s heavily wooded and is about 1.2 square miles, located west of the larger island of Corfu.
The unidentified tourist’s death is the third on Greek islands in the last few weeks. British TV personality Michael Mosely was found dead last Sunday on Symi. A coroner found that he had died the previous Wednesday after going for a hike in rocky terrain.
A Dutch tourist was found dead early on Saturday on Samos. The 74-year-old man was located by Fire Service drone as he lied facedown in a ravine around 330 yards from where he was last seen on Sunday as he struggled to walk in the heat.
Samos and Symi are both located close to the Turkish coast.
The authorities were still searching for three people on Sunday reported missing on several Greek islands, including one American – retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy Albert Calibet, 59, from Hermosa Beach, California.
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