Greece declares state of emergency as death toll reaches 60 as number of rescued survivors reaches 700 (Video) (UPDATED)
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The Guardian: At least 60 people have been killed, scores injured and more than 700 survivors rescued from the sea after a devastating wildfire swept through a small resort town near Athens, authorities in Greece have said.
Euronews/Greek Reporter Greece declared a state of emergency as a group of twenty-six people have been found dead after being trapped by wildfires near a Greek resort town, bringing the death toll in the area to 50.
The bodies were found near a restaurant on the coast, the mayor Rafina-Pikermioy, Vaggelis Bournous, said. Overnight authorities had counted twenty-four other victims of the inferno that engulfed the resort town of Mati and its surrounding area.More than 100 have been injured in the most devastating wildfires the country has suffered in more than a decade.
An aerial video of the aftermath of the wildfires that devastated parts of East Attica, leaving at least 50 people dead and over 1,000 houses burned, paints one of the darkest pictures in Greece’s history.
The video captures the stark, cruel reality of the aftermath of the blazes that destroyed the lives and properties of thousands of Greeks in a summer reminiscing the dark summer of 2007 when a similar catastrophe took place in the Ilia region in Peloponnese.
