{"id":543064,"date":"2025-11-02T00:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543064\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:11:14","slug":"shooting-on-island-of-crete-leaves-2-dead-6-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/543064\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting on island of Crete leaves 2 dead, 6 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people have died and at least six others were injured on Saturday in a shooting on the Greek island of Crete<\/a> reportedly sparked by a long-standing family feud, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The incident began shortly after 11 a.m. in the village of Vorizia, located 52 kilometers (32 miles) south of Heraklion, the island\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n

The two victims, a 39-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman, died as a result of the shootout, police said in a statement. Six other people were taken to local hospitals with injuries of varying severity, local emergency services EKAB said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Two injured men are in hospital and \u201cunder guard, and their participation in the armed incident is under investigation,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

The shooting prompted a large deployment of security forces and emergency teams to the small mountain town where authorities have opened a preliminary investigation. <\/p>\n

The incident appears to be the latest episode in a long-running feud between two local families, according to local media, and comes after an explosion on Friday night at a house under construction. No one was injured.<\/p>\n

According to Greek public broadcaster ERT, the two families had had conflicts in the past linked to grazing lands, which were resolved through private mediation, a common practice in rural areas of Crete.<\/p>\n

The dispute was reignited last year when a member of one family bought land to build a house in an area controlled by the other, local media reported. That house was the scene of Friday\u2019s explosion, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have died and at least six others were injured on Saturday in a shooting on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[36608,188,4179,1450,37884,12,14617,26,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-543064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-crete","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-greece","12":"tag-gun-violence","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-shootings","15":"tag-world","16":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115477209724715516","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}