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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Rich Booth

Body of American tourist transferred to Corfu as Greek police explain ‘common pattern’ in deaths

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The body of a 55-year-old American tourist has been transfered to Corfu from the tiny Greek island of Mathraki, making him the third tourist death in a week following an early June heatwave.

Police did not share the identity of the American, whose body was found near a beach on Mathraki on Sunday. On Monday they said was transferred to the island of Corfu where an autopsy will be carried out.

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