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Army commander resigns over deaths

01 May 2004

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The head of the Greek army and former commander at the NATO Joint Command South base in Larissa, resigned on 6 May 2004 for "reasons of sensitivity" following the death of two second lieutenants on 5 May, when an armoured personnel carrier crashed into a makeshift training facility near the north-eastern city of Ioannina. The accident was reported to have been caused by the personnel carrier's engine stalling at the top of a slope, resulting in a loss of control of the steering and hydraulic breaking system by its driver. This was the latest in a spate of fatal accidents suffered by armed forces personnel. These include the death of a sergeant, also on 5 May, in mysterious circumstances as he carried out maintenance work on a Mirage 2000 fighter plane at Tamagra airfield outside Athens, and the death by electrocution of five soldiers installing a flagpole that got tangled up with an overhead power cable on the Greek-Turkish border on 8 April 2004.

Athens News 7.5.04.

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