Firefighters in Cyprus on Thursday battled the country's largest wildfires in more than 50 years, which have two people dead and caused the destruction of homes, as well as the evacuation of dozens of villages.
The wildfires have scorched at least 120 square kilometres of land, making them the most destructive since 1974 when fires raged during the island's invasion by the Turkish military in July 1974. Around 260 square kilometres of land were burned at the time, according to the Cyprus Forestry Department.
