Greece: Police find bodies of five hunters
Police have launched a murder investigation after discovering the bodies of five hunters in a rural area of central Greece.
All the men, aged between 17 and 33, had shotgun wounds, police said.
The bodies were found late on Saturday in the region of Kalyvia, close to the central Greek city of Agrinio, about 175 miles north-west of Athens.
Police said one of the victims made a desperate call from his mobile phone to his father but could only utter the word “father” before the connection was cut off.
The father discovered the bodies after searching the area, and notified the police.
The victims, who were all related, were identified as Christos and Vassilis Nikolopoulos, Lambros Antressas, Ilias Pipas and Alexis Nikolopoulos,
The deaths caused shock in a country with one of the lowest murder rates in Europe.
“This was an unprecedented criminal act, I’ve never experienced anything like this,” said the regional governor of southern Greece, Vasilis Tsiatouras.
