An American tourist has been found dead on a beach five days after going missing on a tiny Greek island.
The body of a man was discovered on a rocky stretch of coast on the remote island of Mathraki today.
He had last been seen on Tuesday at a cafe with two female tourists who have since left.
However, he wasn’t reported missing until Thursday when his host, a Greek-American, noticed he hadn’t returned home.
No further details about the victim have been released by the authorities.
Mathraki has a permanent population of around 100 people and measures just 1.2 square miles.
It’s mostly covered by heavy woodland and lies around 45 minutes north-west of Corfu by boat.
Temperatures have soared to 43C in some parts of Greece this week and two people have died of heatstroke in Cyprus.
His death marks the latest in a string of recent cases in which tourists on Greek islands have died or gone missing. Some, if not all, had set out on hikes in very hot temperatures.
A 74-year-old Dutch tourist was found by a fire department drone on Saturday lying face down in a ravine about 300 metres from the spot where he was last observed last Sunday, walking with some difficulty in the blistering heat.
British television presenter, Dr Michael Mosley, was found dead last Sunday on the island of Symi.
A coroner concluded that he had died the previous Wednesday, shortly after going for a hike over difficult, rocky terrain.
On Friday, two French tourists were reported missing on Sikinos, a relatively secluded Cyclades island in the Aegean Sea, with less than 400 permanent residents.
The two women, ages 64 and 73, had left their respective hotels to meet.
On the island of Amorgos, also in the Cyclades, authorities are still searching for a 59-year-old tourist reported missing since Tuesday, when he had gone on a solo hike in very hot conditions.
US media identified the missing tourist as retired Los Angeles County deputy sheriff Albert Calibet, of Hermosa Beach, California.
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