Greek firefighters begin to control forest fire near Athens
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23/05/2021 - 12:56
More than 270 firefighters, backed by 16 aircraft and by the army, are fighting the blazes Yorgos KONTARINIS Eurokinissi/AFP/File
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Athens (AFP)
Greek firefighters said Sunday they were slowly bringing under control a major forest fire in a nature conservation area near Athens as the government promised financial aid to those affected.
No injuries have been reported so far in Greece's first big forest fire of the summer, but around a dozen houses have been destroyed or damaged and villages and hamlets evacuated in what experts warned could be an ecological disaster.