A major wildfire has raged across the northern suburbs of Athens in Greece, leaving at least one person dead and triggering multiple evacuations as swirling winds hampered the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and dozens of water-dropping planes. Pics/AFP (Text/AP)
13 August,2024 08:23 PM IST | Asif Ali Sayed
Greece, a tourist hotspot, is facing a tough wildfire season after its warmest winter and earliest heatwave on record, with temperatures hitting 44°C (111°F) in June. Forest fires that raged in the outer suburbs of Athens over the weekend have been brought under control. Fanned by strong winds of up to 70 kilometres per hour and dry conditions, two fires had broken out on Sunday in the seaside resort of Keratea, east of the capital, and the suburb Stamata. (Source and Images: AFP)
01 July,2024 08:16 PM IST | Raaina Jain
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday met his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis and held a bilateral meeting during his long-day visit to the country. Photos/PTI/ANI
25 August,2023 03:51 PM IST | Editor
Water-dropping planes from several European countries joined hundreds of firefighters on Wednesday battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that left 20 people dead, while major blazes also burned in Spain's Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border (Pics/AFP)
24 August,2023 09:55 AM IST | ronak mastakar_d.jpg "Wildfires rampage in Greek forests, thousands evacuated")
Three large wildfires churned across Greece on Saturday, with one threatening whole towns and cutting a line across Evia, the country's second-largest island, isolating its northern part. Others engulfed forested mountain sides and skirted ancient sites, leaving behind a trail of destruction that one official described as 'a biblical catastrophe.'
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