Hot, dry and windy conditions have seen dozens of wildfires break out across Greece.
Hundreds of firefighters have struggled to control major wildfires burning out of control for days in northeastern Greece and on, with strong winds fanning the flames and prompting evacuations of villages and a city hospital in Greece. Firefighters were also battling blazes in Italy.
On Tuesday, Greek police activated the country’s Disaster Victim Identification Team to identify the 18 bodies, which were found near a shack in the Avanta area in theAlexandroupolis region, Ioannis Artopios, a spokesman for the fire department, said in a televised statement. A massive wall of flames raced through forests toward Alexandroupolis overnight, prompting authorities to evacuate another eight villages and the city’s hospital. The flames turned the sky over the city and across the region red, hiding the sun as choking smoke and swirling flecks of ash filled the air.
Near Athens, a new fire broke out in the Aspropyrgos area on the capital’s western fringes Tuesday morning, prompting authorities to issue evacuation orders for two villages in the area.
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