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"Flour war": Revellers celebrate carnival tradition in Greek town

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Hundreds of revellers in a central Greek town threw flour on each other on Monday, as part of an old carnival tradition.

The "flour war" pits revellers against each other with tonnes of cooking flour tinted with food colouring.

The annual event in Galaxidi, about 200 km west of Athens, marks the end of the Carnival season and the start of the 40-day Lent period until the Orthodox Easter.

The tradition is believed to have evolved from the 19th century during the period when Greece was occupied by the Ottoman Empire.

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