Ascension of 88 people killed by forest fires in Greece

07/29/2018 –

Five days after Greece experienced the most terrible fires of this century, the number of deaths rose to at least 88. The last victims were a woman 42 years old, who was among the dozen critically ill patients in hospital, and a 13-year-old boy. Two nine-year-old twins sought after since Tuesday were also found dead.

While the actual number of missing persons is unknown, the government reported Friday that 40 initially missing persons had returned home, the work continues on the identification of bodies, particularly arduous due to the fact that the number of missing persons is unknown. state of calcination that they present, which makes them fear some may never be identified, as acknowledged the head of the judicial police unit, Pinelopi Miniatis, to the Kathimerini newspaper.

Among the bodies identified are those of Sofia and Vasilikí, the nine-year-old twins that all Greece was looking for since the dawn of Tuesday, when her father thought to have seen them living in a fishing boat, with d & # 39; 39, other survivors. , in the capture of a video broadcast relentlessly by Greek TV channels.

The father even used a detective to follow the girls' footprints. However, it was an illusion, because the girls were found dead hugs their grandparents in Mati, the city where all the deaths were recorded. The girls had gone the same day with their grandparents to Mati's summer home while the parents were continuing to Athens, the capital.

As part of the cleaning and inspection of houses looking for potential victims, 150 experts from the Ministry of Infrastructure are working, who have so far inspected 3,505 affected homes