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15 September, 2025
 
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Greek wildfire death toll rises

Another 26 casualties found between two homes

Source: Reuters

Greece’s Red Cross organization said on Tuesday the bodies of around 26 victims of a devastating forest fire east of Athens had been discovered, substantially raising a death toll from an inferno which ravaged the area on Monday evening.

“Unfortunately we found 26 charred bodies, between two homes,” Nikos Economopoulos, president of the Greek Red Cross, told Greek state tv.

A Reuters witness earlier said he had seen bodies in the area, and had heard reports of several more casualties - meters away from a beach where hundreds had fled to save themselves.

The official count from the blaze in the community of Mati, before the morning discovery, was 24.

By Tuesday afternoon, there were at least 60 repoted deaths in the fire.

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