Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announces three days of national mourning

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16h21 : According to our information, in Kineta, where a first fire broke out yesterday morning, the inhabitants are still confined to their homes, on instructions. They were warned by loudspeakers. In this city located about fifty kilometers from Athens, no victim was reported, but many cars and houses went up in smoke.

(VALERIE GACHE / AFP)

15h22 : The Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicates that at this stage "no French victim is to deplore" in the fires in Greece . The provisional record of forest fires is currently 60 dead and 172 wounded.

14:32 : The Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, declared three days of national mourning after the death of at least 60 people in the forest fires.

14h29 : Wildfires are back in Southern Europe (not that is good news). A very intense fire is raging in the vicinity of Kineta west of Athens. The heat is so intense that Sentinel2 in today's imagery, would only see an infrared spot

14h27 : The intensity of forest fires in the region of Kineta, Greece, is visible from space. According to the European observation program Copernicus, the heat of the fire is such that the satellite Sentinel 2 has only captured infrared images of the fire.

13h22 : "We counted 60 deaths" after the fires in the region of Athens, said the councilor of Rafina, chief town of the seaside area ravaged by fires. According to the government's latest report, 172 people were also injured.

13:14 : The toll of forest fires in Attica rises to 60 deaths, according to a local official.

12:21 pm : "Everything burned, all the houses burned, many cars, too."

The owner of a cafeteria in Nea Makri, a seaside town about thirty kilometers away from is from Athens (Greece), testifies to Franceinfo of the violence of the fires which made at least 50 dead and 172 wounded.

11h23 : @anonyme Enlaces and charred, according to a photographer AFP on the spot, the 26 victims discovered this morning, in the courtyard of a villa in Mati, seem not to have managed to reach the sea nearby to shelter.

11h22 : Hello, I do not understand how 26 people in Greece could perish charred, why did not they fu i seeing the flames coming? Thank you for enlightening me.

11h20 : #fire #Grece photo of Nikos Kalogeros while waiting for help yesterday

11h20 : Photos of Nikos Kalogeros yesterday while waiting for help #Grece #fire [19659017] 11h21 : Photos without comment of Nikos Kalogeros yesterday on the beach saves the flames waiting for help

11:20 : On Twitter, a journalist shares photos from yesterday and showing many people waiting for them

11:20 : @anonym The forest and maquis fires are recurrent in Greece in the summer. The last of the most devastating fires killed 77 people in 2007 in the Peloponnese and on the island of Evia, ravaging 250,000 hectares of forests, maquis and crops. However, the climatic conditions, particularly with a mild and dry winter, have created particularly favorable conditions this year.

11:13 : How to explain these fires that suddenly hit the country?

11h07 : New shots made last night arrive. These photos were taken in the region of Mati, a small coastal tourist village located about thirty kilometers east of Athens.

(VALERIE GACHE / ANGELOS TZORTZINIS / AFP)

11h06 : "I was on the beach yesterday, I saw the fires from a distance, we could see the flames on the crests of the mountains, there was thick smoke, it was still 40 ° C to 21 hours. world was tense, not rebadured. "

Baptiste, a Frenchman from Bordeaux on vacation in Greece, is a guest of the Club Marmara Golden Coast hotel. He was there when the evacuees arrived at the hotel.

11:05 : Yesterday, other people went straight to the Akis Papaionnou hotel from the airport because the buses driving to their hotel or their residence was not going around.

11:06 : "Everything comes back in order, except the state of the forest … Around us everything is black, burnt."

Akis Papaionnou, director of the Club Marmara Golden Coast hotel in Marathonos, is 10 km from a fire that ravaged Greece. Last night, he told franceinfo that he had welcomed a hundred people evacuated from their hotel and villas because they were close to the flames. Now that the fires are circumscribed, these people are returning to their hotel.

10:21 : "All day yesterday, there was a big red cloud. There was wind, violent, and 40 ° C. Today the weather is heavy, it is gray.Waiting the rain, but it is already near 37 ° C . "

We come from contact by telephone Alexia Kefalas, France Télévisions correspondent and France 24 in Greece. She describes the weather conditions in the center of Athens, where she is. The center of the capital is not affected by fires. Most of the victims were trapped in the vicinity of Mati, on the eastern coast of Attica.

09:40 : Here are new images of the damage caused by the fires that hit Mati, in the east of Attica, a few kilometers from Athens. The provisional record amounts to at least 50 dead and 172 wounded

(NIKOS LIBERTAS / SOOC / AFP)

09h33 : Our thoughts are with Greece and the victims of the terrible fires. In Sweden as in Greece, France and Europe stand together and provide their help.