A 41-year-old man lost his life and his mother, 71, was injured on Thursday in a western Athens suburb when the car they were in was swept away during a flash flood, the Fire Brigade said.

Greece was hit by a wet front that caused flooding, damages to property and traffic jams in particular in the western parts of the country and Athens.

The Fire Brigade received more than 600 phone calls on Thursday morning in the Attica region to tend to flooded basements of homes and stores or to evacuate people trapped in cars on roads which had turned into streams.

The heavy rain had receded by afternoon in Athens.

In the prefecture of Ilia in the Peloponnese peninsula, the most affected region so far, local officials said agriculture production had been damaged by overflown rivers.

Greek authorities are assessing the damage.

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