Athens: A 74-year-old Dutch tourist who was missing for a week on the Greek island of Samos has been found dead, a police official said on Saturday.

The man went missing after hiking alone on the southwest of the island during searing heat, and his wife reported his disappearance last Sunday.

Samos is an island of 30,000 people in the eastern Aegean and is popular with tourists.

Last Sunday, British TV presenter Michael Mosley was found dead following a four-day search operation on the Greek island of Symi after taking a walk alone in high temperatures.

Mosley disappeared after he set out on a 20-minute walk in searing temperatures along a rocky coastal path from the beach to the village of Pedi in the middle of the day.

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CCTV footage showed Mosley gingerly walking down a rocky mountain near the perimeter fence of the Agia Marina resort before he appears to stumble and fall out of view, just over two hours after he left his wife and friends, the London Telegraph reported.

His wife, Dr Clare Bailey Mosley, said her husband was about 100 metres to safety.

“He did an incredible climb, took the wrong route and collapsed where he couldn’t be easily seen by the extensive search team.