In Brief
BUS ACCIDENT
Driver charged with manslaughter A bus driver was charged with multiple counts of manslaughter on Saturday after two people were killed and a third seriously injured when a bus veered out of control in a narrow street in central Athens on Friday. An Athens prosecutor ordered that Lefteris Rousiotis, 58, be released while traffic police and bus experts investigate the incident which happened near Omonia Square. Rousiotis, who has apologized to the families of the victims, told police the accident happened after his accelerator pedal became stuck. FAMILY ALLOWANCE Both spouses to benefit The State must pay family allowance to both spouses if both work for the civil service or broader public sector, the State Audit Council ruled in a decision made public this weekend. The ruling by the independent council reverses a decision by the Finance Ministry’s General Accounting Office which had denied the payment of family allowance to a former judge – whose wife is also a public sector worker. Abortion death Two doctors from the northern town of Drama caused the death through their negligence of a young woman who had come to them for an abortion last February, a Kavala court ruled on Saturday. Gynecologist Nikolaos Fotiadis, 44, was given four years and anesthetist Theodoros Nikolakopoulos, 48, three years and three months in jail. Theokleia Dalia, 24, from Serres, suffered uncontrollable hemorrhaging during the operation and died of a heart attack, according to the coroner who testified. Both men appealed the court’s decision and have been released. – Inauguration of «The Olympic Idea and Art,» an exhibition of modern art from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, at the Athinais art center in Athens, 8.30 p.m.
