A lumbering low-pressure system over the central Mediterranean Sea has been dousing Greece in waves of torrential rainfall over recent days, a weather pattern reminiscent of one that wrought severe flooding in Spain in October.

A storm sweeping through Greece has claimed a third victim, state TV reported Monday, after damaging roads and buildings on the islands of Lemnos, Rhodes and other parts of the country.

Heavy rain from Storm Bora causesflooding on the Greek tourist island of RhodesReuters video footage showed cars and debris piled-up, damaged homes, flooded streets and residents trying to remove the mud from their properties in Ialyos,