Greece: Drought dries up lake to reveal sunken village of Kallio

It is only the second time the village's ruins have been visible since it was abandoned decades ago.

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Residents of the village of Kallio were forced to evacuate their homes more than 40 years ago to make way for the Mornos dam in southern Greece, which supplies water to the capital, Athens.

However, drought conditions in recent months caused the reservoir's water levels to drop dramatically - revealing what remained of several homes and a school.

It is only the second time since Kallio was abandoned that the village has been seen, according to a former resident. The first time was in the 1990s during another period of drought.

"You see the first floor that remains of my father-in-law's two-storey house... and next to it you can see what's left of my cousins' house," Yorgos Iosifidis, a 60-year-old pensioner who lived in Kallio as a young man, told the AFP news agency.

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