{"id":13198,"date":"2026-06-27T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13198"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T13:20:00","slug":"tragedy-in-heraklion-woman-who-shot-herself-dies-from-her-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=13198","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy in Heraklion: Woman Who Shot Herself Dies from Her Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bloody incident that took place this morning at the Malevizi shooting range in the regional unit of <b>Heraklion <\/b>Crete,<b> as the 43-year-old woman who shot herself<\/b>, died. <\/p>\n<p>Doctors fought a titanic battle to keep her alive, but her condition was irreversible, as she had <b>extensive brain trauma<\/b> and severe injuries from the gunshot.<\/p>\n<p>According to the director of the <b>hospital<\/b>Kostas Dandoulakis, who spoke to APE-MPE, the injured woman <b>was deemed to require surgery <\/b>following a CT scan, where she unfortunately passed away.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information available so far, the woman, who was from Thessaloniki and had arrived in <b>Crete <\/b>three days ago for vacation, was at the shooting range to take a shot. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the incident, she reportedly asked the range supervisor to step back, telling him: \u201c<b>Move further back, you\u2019re making me nervous<\/b>.\u201d Immediately afterward, according to reports, she turned the gun on herself and fired.<\/p>\n<p>She initially suffered a serious neck injury, and while being transported by <b>EKAV <\/b>, she was responsive. However, her condition deteriorated rapidly, with doctors diagnosing extensive brain damage and taking all necessary measures to save her life.<\/p>\n<p><b>Her family was immediately informed of the tragic incident and rushed from Thessaloniki to Crete, in order to be by her side<\/b>. Unfortunately, the woman did not survive and succumbed to her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police authorities are continuing their investigation into the case, gathering statements and all necessary evidence to determine with absolute certainty the circumstances under which the incident unfolded.<\/p>\n<h3>How the tragedy unfolded<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>In a shocking account on neakriti.gr, the president of the Malevizi Shooting Club, who also served as the instructor for the unfortunate woman, describes the bloody incident minute by minute. <b>Categorically refuting theories that it was an accident, he makes it clear that the woman acted intentionally<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The president explained that the woman\u2019s presence at the shooting range was entirely legal: \u201cAfter the first round of competitions, the young woman came as a visitor. The new legislation even allows visitors to participate in our training sessions. We followed the proper procedure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then went up to the range with her to teach her the basics: \u201c<b>The young woman came up with me. I\u2019m a shooting instructor. I showed her everything she needed to know about the proper way to use the weapons<\/b>,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bloody incident that took place this morning at the Malevizi shooting range in the regional unit of &#8230; had a tragic outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}