11:40 – Greece: the fire report is 88 deaths, three children among the identified

The toll of the fires that ravaged the coast of Athens on Monday weighed 88 dead, including three children – two twins and a boy – whose fate had moved the country and are among the first identified .

The new victim, a forty-year-old, died in hospital where she was treated from the fire, and nine victims remain in serious condition, according to the Department of Health.

A detective hired by the family nine-year-old Sophia and Vbadiliki, who were en route to the beach with their grandparents when the fire hit the seaside community of Mati, told the media in the night that the girls had been identified among the dead.

Their fate had moved Greece, their father, Yiannis, at first thought to recognize them in photos of survivors before being undeceived. Since their faces were looping over the media.

They were found entwined with their two grandparents on a ground where 26 charred bodies had been discovered Tuesday morning. Located at the edge of a cliff, the place closed like a trap on these victims, who tried to reach the sea, a few meters.

A mother also lost her 11-year-old son, her 13-year-old daughter, and her 54-year-old husband, other tragic faces of the incident. She shared their identification with the media on Friday night.

According to the press, a six-month-old infant also died of respiratory problems in the hospital earlier this week, after spending several hours under a cloud of smoke and ashes in the water, in the arms of her mother, still hospitalized Saturday.

– "Managing anger" –

Forensic doctors had indicated that many children were among the dead, Mati being, one hour from Athens, a popular resort retired welcoming their grandchildren for the school holidays.

Four foreign tourists have so far been counted among the 25 people who, according to the legal services, were identified Saturday: an Irish groom on a honeymoon, a mother and his Polish son, and a Belgian whose teenage daughter was saved.

The confusion still reigned over the exact number of missing persons, waiting for the end of the identifications but also because of a lack of precise census of the survivors finally found.

The inventory of the damage continued elsewhere: according to the Ministry of Infrastructures, 3,366 constructions had been appraised Saturday, of which a thousand clbadified as uninhabitable and 800 very damaged.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday badumed "political responsibility" for the ravages caused by the fire, the deadliest ever known by the country, but without conceding anything about the organization of relief, denounced by the opposition .

Deputy Minister for Protection of the Citizen, Nikos Toskas, reaffirmed Saturday on the public TV Ert that there were "no strategic mistakes". "The best planning in the world could not have" averted the disaster, he insisted, while the government has questioned the violence of the winds and urban anarchy prevailing in the area for decades.

One of the many volunteers who came to the scene since Tuesday to support the survivors testified on Saturday morning often having to "manage the anger of the inhabitants" on the Skaï radio station.