Two Poles die in forest fires in Greece
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
24.07.2018 11:26
Two Poles are among the victims of deadly forest fires in Greece, Wojciech Flera, the Polish consul in Athens, has said.
Forest fires burn in Attica, the Greek region encompassing Athens. Photo: EPA/ALEXANDROS VLACHOS
The Poles, a woman and her son, were with eight other people on a boat which sank as they tried to evacuate a hotel that was at risk of being engulfed by flames, said Janusz Śmigielski of the Grecos travel agency.
Some 50 people have died in the flames, according to a Greek government spokesman.
More than 160 people, including 16 children, have been injured.
About a thousand homes and hundreds of cars have been destroyed.
The flames erupted amid a heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in Greece over the past few days.
A state of emergency has been declared in Greece and officials have appealed to other European Union countries for help. (vb/pk)
Source: IAR