A 9-year-old boy was killed and his 4-year-old sibling was injured on Sunday evening at Kombotades village, near the city of Lamia in Central Greece, when a large piece of plane tree trunk collapsed on top of them.
The accident happened at the central square of the village where children were playing. Police, by order of Lamia’s Misdemeanor Prosecutor, arrested the city official responsible for Greenery on manslaughter charges as it was his department that was responsible for the maintainance of trees which failed to predict the potential hazard.
Lamia municipality said that there are thousands of plane trees in residential areas and that its departments intervene whenever a tree poses danger to the public. On the Kombotades accident, the municipality claimed they had no indication or information that the tree trunk was rotten or hazardous.
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