Eighteen burned bodies, possibly migrants, were found on Tuesday in a rural area in northern Greece where wildfires have been burning out of control for a fourth day, authorities said, as gale force winds fanned blazes across the country.
In a city nearby, dozens of hospital patients were evacuated onto a ferry, while a blaze on the foothills of Mount Parnitha sent thick clouds of smoke over the capital Athens.
Another body thought to belong to a migrant was found on Monday in a rural area some 40 kilometres away."It has reached the entire village," said Alexandros Chrisoulidis, a 19-year-old Avantas resident.Our own house up there, where the fire started, has completely burned down. There is nothing. Greece's fire brigade on 22 August 2023 ordered the evacuation of a district on Athens' northwestern flank as firefighters battled a steadily growing wave of wildfires around the country, the second in a month."The winds are very strong... it is a very difficult firefighting task. God help us," said Sotiris Masouris, a 50-year-old resident of Hasia, west of Athens.
By early Tuesday, authorities said 65 patients at the University Hospital of Alexandroupolis had been evacuated as a precaution onto a ferry in the port.
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