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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Matt Mathers

British tourists describe fleeing for their lives from Rhodes wildfire: ‘It was hell on earth’

via REUTERS

A mother who says she experienced “hell on earth” was among the British tourists forced to flee Rhodes this weekend as fierce wildfires continue to rip through the Greek holiday island.

Officials on the island, which sits southwest of Turkey in the Aegean Sea, launched Greece’s biggest-ever evacuation operation as the blaze tore through vast swathes of land, threatening resorts popular with holidaymakers.

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