Search Commences for Slovak Man Missing Near Ioannina

The Slovak Man went missing on imposing Mt. Mitsikeli, reportedly over the past few days

Another instance of a foreign visitor gone missing in Greece this summer was reported on Tuesday, with a 23-year-old man from Slovakia being the focus of a search by a members of an alpine civil protection unit on a peak overlooking the northwest lake-side city of Ioannina from the north.

The man went missing on imposing Mt. Mitsikeli, reportedly over the past few days. According to local media reports, the Slovak man arrived in Ioannina as a volunteer for a NGO active as part of a European Union program.

Reports state that he began a five-day vacation on July 10, and intended to camp in a site above the mountain-side village of Ligiades. He was due to return to his post on Monday, but failed to turn up, whereby his co-workers reported his apparent disappearance to police.

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