A lumbering low-pressure system over the central Mediterranean Sea has been dousing Greece in waves of torrential rainfall over recent days, a weather pattern reminiscent of one that wrought severe flooding in Spain last month.

Heavy rain from Storm Bora causesflooding on the Greek tourist island of RhodesReuters video footage showed cars and debris piled-up, damaged homes, flooded streets and residents trying to remove the mud from their properties in Ialyos,

Homes, businesses and roads in the Greek tourist island of Rhodes were covered in mud and debris on Monday after Storm Bora battered the country over the weekend. In the resort of Faliraki the flooding caused by torrential rains destroyed a bridge,