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British tourists were inches away from death after a landslide at the popular Navagio beach in the Greek island of Zakynthos.
At least seven people, including two children, were injured after the rockfall on the Zante beach.
A Czech woman suffered back injuries and was transferred to hospital, while the other six were treated for minor injuries, an official said.
There were no people missing but authorities had air and sea assets in the area and were conducting a search as a precaution, in case people were trapped under the rocks, one official said.
“So far, we haven’t found any trapped people but we will continue searching,” a fire brigade official said.
Video footage uploaded on the website of Greek newspaper Proto Thema showed bathers running in panic as a large part of a cliff peeled off the rockwall and tumbled down at a point close to the shore.
A couple of small vessels overturned from the force of the fall that caused high waves, witnesses told authorities.
Zakynthos is also known as Zante in Western Europe.
One of the Ionian island’s main attractions, Navagio has a shipwreck on the shore and is surrounded by steep cliffs. It can only be reached by boat.
Agencies contributed to this report
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