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Drone footage shows the devastating consequences of forest fires in Greece.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) – All autopsies The head of the Athens Forensic Department said Friday that the coroners had completed the autopsy of 86 bodies, despite the official record of the dead. at 83.

The discrepancy was due to medico-legal tests revealing the remains of three more people, said Karakoukis. The revelation was an indication of the intensity of the heat of the fire, which melted the metal hub caps of the cars.

"There are parts of bone that are allocated to three people, so the number goes up to 86," says Karakoukis. 19659010] Many deaths have been burned and the procedure of identification, based on DNA samples of parents, should take several days.

The German Federal Criminal Police sent a team of forensic specialists to help the process. Team members worked on major disasters, including the Asian tsunami in 2004 and an in-flight collision in 2002 between a Russian charter flight and a DHL cargo plane over southern Germany that has killed 71 people.

of the burned area northeast of Athens near the port of Rafina while the Coast Guard and volunteer divers scoured the sea in search of other potential victims. We still do not know how many people could be missing

While the fire was raging, badped by high winds, hundreds of people sought refuge on the nearby beaches. But the intensity of the heat and the dense smoke forced many people to swim towards the sea. The rescue arrived hours later, and at least six of the victims were people who drowned.

Authorities said that there were serious indications that the fire had been deliberately fired. However, the local mayor of Penteli, where the fire started, said that he thought the fire had been accidentally triggered by electric cables

"It's my opinion because I saw the cables on the pylon burn, "says Dimitris Stergiou Kapsalis.

The fire was the second forest fire to hit near Athens on Monday. When it broke out in the afternoon, most of the firefighting resources were already engaged in fighting a much larger fire in the west of the Greek capital. Although this one also burned houses, he did not make any victims.

Charges were laid against the way the authorities handled the deadly fire and why no evacuation was ordered. Public Order Minister Nikos Toskas defended the emergency response at a press conference Thursday night

"I am trying to find mistakes for reasons of conscience … but at the operational level, I do not find any major mistakes ". 19659010] The mayor of Rafina Evangelos Bournous said that an evacuation would not have been an option.

"They talk about an evacuation plan.How can an evacuation plan be implemented on a site built outside of urban planning, which can not to have gathering places? "

" The evacuation plan was that everyone was trying to "

The authorities said the fire was moving at such a speed that to control the evacuation of the area could have caused even more casualties.

The most affected area was Mati, a seaside town of holiday homes and the permanent residences, according to experts, were built as a "fire trap", with houses built among pine trees, narrow streets, many dead ends and access to the sea.

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