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Cyprus News Agency: News in English, 06-08-12
CONTENTS
[01] UNHCR AID LEBANON CYPRUS
[02] TSOLAKIS - GRAMMATIKOS - REMAINS
[01] UNHCR AID LEBANON CYPRUS
Three aircraft, chartered by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), will be arriving at Larnaca airport
Saturday, carrying humanitarian aid to be distributed in Lebanon.
A UNHCR press release says that due to the continuing difficulty in
delivering humanitarian aid to Lebanon by air or road, the United
Nations started moving aid by sea from Cyprus to Beirut.
[02] TSOLAKIS - GRAMMATIKOS - REMAINS
Head of the Greek Air Accident and Incidents Investigating Committee
Akrivos Tsolakis visited the site of the Helios air crash near Athens,
following reports that the remains of persons missing since the crash
were located.
The remains were found in the last week under the Helios airways Boeing
737 which crashed on 14 August 2005 on its way to Prague, via Athens,
into the Grammatikos mountain side north of the Greek capital, killing
121 passengers and crew on board, most of them Cypriots going on
holiday. The Boeing came down as two Greek F-16 were accompanying it
after it failed to respond to calls from Athens control tower.
Tsolakis went to the Grammatikos site to oversee the collection of the
remains of two women and a man which were found under one of the
aircrafts wings, which was embedded in a gorge.
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