Authorities evacuated nearly 2,500 more people from the Greek island of Corfu on Monday as crews fought several wildfires in the heat-battered country. ECRNewsWatch Greece
Tens of thousands of people have already fled blazes on the island of Rhodes, with many frightened tourists scrambling to get home.
Kelly Squirrel, a transport administrator from the United Kingdom, said police had ordered people from her hotel on Rhodes to evacuate. Greek television broadcast images of long lines of people, some in beachwear, lugging suitcases along the island's roads on Saturday, when the evacuations were ordered.Some 30,000 people fled the flames on Rhodes at the weekend, the country's largest-ever wildfire evacuation.
"There were thousands of people, the buses couldn't pass, we had to walk for more than two hours," he told AFP at Rhodes airport.Holiday-makers and some locals spent the night in gyms, schools and hotel conference centres on the island. "We ran 10 kilometres with all our luggage to escape the flames", while the temperature was 42 degrees Celsius , said German tourist Lena Schwarz, after arriving at Hanover airport overnight Sunday into Monday.Oxana Neb, 50, also arriving at Hanover, said the evacuation had been"very bad".She joined other guests running to the beach, eventually abandoning her suitcases on the way, she said.
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