Firefighters in Greece battled flames burning for the tenth day on the island of Rhodes, while new blazes erupted on the mainland that destroyed farms and factories overnight and left farmers rushing to evacuate their animals
The blazes across the country, which have been supercharged by strong winds and temperatures exceeding 40 Celsius , killed a further two people in central Greece on Wednesday, taking the death toll from the fires to five.
The body of a 45-year old shepherd was found in a rural area on Wednesday evening, the fire brigade said. Earlier, authorities had found the body of a woman, state TV ERT said. Both deaths were attributed to the fires. "It started from the grass on various fronts in the area and we got to this situation from the lack of public authority, of regional governors, mayors, to burn half of Magnesia," farmer Kostas Koukouvinos said.
Firefighters were also tackling a new blaze near the town of Kymi on the island of Evia, where two pilots were killed on Tuesday when their plane crashed into a hillside as it was dropping water onto the flames.firefighters have been battlingWildfires are frequent in Greece during the summer but higher temperatures as well as dryer weather which scientists attribute to climate change have turned the country into a Mediterranean hotspot.
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