The body of a missing 65-year-old Dutch tourist missing on the eastern Aegean Island of Samos since Aug. 22 was located in less-frequented stretch of the isle.
The woman’s body was discovered by a member of a Dutch rescue team looking for the missing woman alone at the time and without K-9 assistance. He was reportedly attracted to the site by the strong stench of a decaying body, which turned out to be the Dutch tourist.
The specific site is in the opposite direction of where the unfortunate woman’s cell phone had been found, and where most search efforts centered.
Seven fruitless days of searching had preceded the body’s discovery by a special fire brigade unit equipped with drones, a local alpine rescue unit and a Dutch team that arrived on the island with eight sniffer dogs.
The current summer holiday season in Greece has witnessed an unusually high number of missing holiday-makers and deaths from heat exhaustion in remote island regions.
The most prominent case of a holiday-maker gone missing and subsequently located dead was that of BBC host Michael Mosley, whose body was discovered in a rugged spot on the small Dodecanese island of Symi after he veered off a foot-trail.
