Flooding in Athens – in pictures

A flash of lightning over Piraeus, near Athens, during a torrential rainstorm
Photograph: Elina Liberta/AP/Fosphotos

A firefighter gives directions to colleagues as they try to remove a car from a flooded underpass at Faliro, near Athens Photograph: Kostas Tsironis/AP

A flooded road in central Athens Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images

A woman wades across a flooded highway linking Athens with its port of Piraeus Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP

People walk past overturned cars in the suburb of Chalandri Photograph: Maria Marogianni/EPA

Vehicles on a flooded street. The capital's tram system was shut down for more than an hour and rail services were disrupted Photograph: Orestis Panagiotou/EPA

A boy stands in front of a two-storey building that collapsed in the Aghios Panteleimonas area of Athens. No injuries were reported in the incident Photograph: Alkis Konstantinidis/EPA

Damaged cars pile up in the Chalandri suburb, north of Athens Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters

Residents watch floodwater gushing down a road in northern Athens Photograph: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP

A woman is rescued from floodwaters in Chalandri. Another young woman who had been trapped in her car on a flooded suburban road died shortly after being pulled out by motorists and taken to a hospital, police said. The cause of her death was not immediately clear Photograph: John Kolesidis/Reuters