Greek PM offers tourists affected by wildfires a free stay in Rhodes next year

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Good Morning Britain. Photograph: ITV

Tourists whose holidays on the Greek island of Rhodes were cut short due to intense wildfires are being offered a one-week free stay next year, the Greek prime minister said.

Holidaymakers and local people were forced to flee homes and hotels as the fires burned for days in July, with about 20,000 tourists rescued from danger in the largest evacuation ever undertaken by the country.