Two wildfires, fanned by strong winds, raged out of control near Athens on Monday (16 August), forcing the evacuation of villages, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, write Vassilis Triandafyllou, Leon Malherbe and Alkis Konstantinidis, Reuters.
More than 500 wildfires have broken out in recent weeks across Greece, which, like other countries in the Mediterranean region including Turkey and Tunisia, has seen some of its highest temperatures in decades.
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