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Helena Smith in Athens

Search intensifies for British woman missing from Greek beach

Holidaymakers on a sunny beach in northern Greece
Northern Greece, where Michele Bourda went missing, has been hit by record temperatures in recent weeks. Photograph: Nadja Abele/Alamy

A mammoth search-and-rescue operation for a British woman last seen lounging on a sunbed in Greece has intensified days after her “mysterious” disappearance.

The Hellenic coastguard, backed by a flotilla of pleasure craft and fishing boats, has fanned across the waters off Ofrynio beach near the northern town of Kavala, where Michele Bourda, 59, went missing on 1 August.

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