Tragedy in Athens: Vacation ends in disaster for American family
A trip to Greece took a nightmare turn when a simple gas leak turned a tourist rental into a scene of absolute chaos.
Four Americans—a couple, their son, and his girlfriend—were just hours away from their flight home when their rental building in Athens' Plaka district exploded. They never made it to the airport. Two locals, an elderly couple living in the same building, were also killed.
Witnesses say they smelled gas right before the blast leveled the place. Authorities are now busy playing Jenga with the neighboring structures, trying to figure out if they'll collapse too. It is a brutal reminder that sometimes the most dangerous part of travel isn't the flight or the local customs—it's the aging infrastructure in your Airbnb.
Six lives gone in an instant because of what looks like a common gas line failure.
Source: New York Times
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