Accident kills two pedestrians near Chania
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Two people died Thursday after being hit by a car while walking along a road near the Technical University of Crete in Hania. The driver, a 20-year-old Georgian national, has been arrested. The victims were a 20-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man, both from Athens.
After the incident, the university released a statement expressing its condolences to the victims’ families and calling for the streets near the school to be made safer for pedestrians.