The 37-year-old farmer, Dionysis Foukas, and his 73-year-old father, Lysimachos, accused of killing five hunters were taken into custody at Nafplion prison yesterday after testifying before a magistrate in Agrinion, central Greece. Dionysis Foukas confirmed to the magistrate that he had shot the five hunters who he claimed were trespassing in his field. His father changed his testimony and said that he had not witnessed the shootings as he was tending to the family’s sheep, the pair’s lawyers said. The younger man has been charged with murder. His father has been accused of being an accomplice to the killing of the hunters, aged 17 to 33.

Coast guard officers arrested yesterday four suspected traffickers and 112 illegal migrants, including a number of children, on board a fishing boat off the coast of Pylos in the southern Peloponnese, the Merchant Marine Ministry said. The migrants told authorities that they began their journey in Egypt. Meanwhile, police detained yesterday 75 illegal Asian migrants after stopping a truck on the Alexandroupolis - Orestiada national road in northeastern Greece. Officers also arrest the Turkish man who was driving the truck.

Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas said yesterday that prefectures and regional authorities have the responsibility to shut down quarries that are operating illegally, not his ministry. Sioufas made the comments after Public Works and Environment Minister Giorgos Souflias slapped a 2-million-euro fine on two quarrying firms in Markopoulo, east of Athens, for breaking environmental regulations. Souflias had urged the Development Ministry to intervene but Sioufas insisted that his department did not have the necessary authority.

State hospitals will be operating with skeleton staff on Tuesday and Wednesday because of a 48-hour strike by hospital employees. Workers are demanding wage rises, more permanent hirings and increased funding for the National Health Service. Striking employees are due to stage a protest in front of the Health Ministry in central Athens at 11 a.m. on Tuesday

A 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of procurement and child pornography after posting a picture of a 10-year-old girl on the Internet and offering her for sex to people visiting his site, police said yesterday. The unnamed man claimed on his website that the girl was his daughter but officers said the man did not have any children. The suspect said he had set up the website as a prank.

An 18-year-old woman told police yesterday that she had been raped at knifepoint by two men in the Attiko Alsos park near central Athens. Officers said the unnamed teenager told them that she had been sitting in a parked car with her boyfriend when the two men appeared and forced the young man out of the vehicle. The attackers then allegedly jumped in the car and drove to a remote area where they raped the woman before dumping her at a railway station north of Attica.

Two 20-year-olds were killed around 2 a.m. yesterday in Sepolia, western Athens, when their motorcycle crashed into an electricity pole. The two men were thrown off the bike and were hit by an oncoming taxi, authorities said. The two men were not named.

People with low incomes spend just a third of that paid by their richer counterparts on alcohol, according to figures made public yesterday by the National Statistics Service. The study, which focused on alcohol consumed in the household found that poorer people spent no more than 6.23 euros a month on alcoholic beverages for home consumption as compared to 16.07 euros spent by the more well-off.

A taxi driver alleged yesterday that two passengers robbed him at knifepoint in Kato Patissia, near central Athens, police said. The driver said that the two foreign men pulled out a knife and stole some 180 euros from him at about 2 a.m..