Flooding and power cuts as emergency services called out to free trapped citizens

Greek civil protection authorities have been put on maximum alert after a Mediterranean cyclone made landfall, battering the west of the country and many of its popular Ionian islands.

Meteorologists predicted the storm, a rare weather phenomenon referred to as a “medicane”, would pick up speed as it crossed the sea and moved south.

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