Wildfires that have scorched Greece for more than two weeks were mostly under control on Saturday, but firefighters remained in key hotspots with strong winds still a threat, officials said.
"Scattered fire pockets are being extinguished," the fire department said in an update to AFP, adding that there was "no active front" in the three biggest wildfires in Rhodes, Corfu and central Greece that had forced thousands of people to flee.
Some 20,000 visitors and locals fled from hotels and villages on the island of Rhodes. Hundreds more were evacuated in Corfu and other areas. Two pilots died on Tuesday when their water-bombing plane crashed while battling a blaze in Evia, while three more scorched bodies were recovered in fires in Evia and near the industrial zone of the port city of Volos in central Greece.
The citizen's protection minister resigned his post Friday after it emerged that he had taken a vacation as the country battled the wildfires.
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