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170 tourists from Italy, left in Zante island without an airplane to repatriate them

Athens, Greece - They find difficult in coming back home due to the unavailability of ships and flights

The holiday destination dreamt for months becomes a nightmare place, from which it's impossible to depart. That's what's happened -according to reports from the newspaper "Il Mattino", to 170 Italian tourists from Campania, stranded from days on the Zante island in Greece. The travel, organized by several tour operators, had started on August 19th: the outward flight had been organized without problems...

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Rome, Italy, 08/29/2011 16:40
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