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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Alex Olorenshaw, Faisal Ali, Paul Scruton and Natalie Croker

A visual guide to Greece’s deadly wildfires

Flames burn a forest  near Sykorrahi in the north-eastern Evros region
Flames burn a forest near Sykorrahi in north-east Greece. Photograph: Achilleas Chiras/AP

Greece has been stricken by hundreds of wildfires this summer, with dozens of fires breaking out each day. The vast majority are extinguished quickly but some have blazed out of control.

One fire, in the Alexandroupolis and Evros region in the north-east, has destroyed homes and vast tracts of forest since it started on 19 August.

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