the toll is getting worse, at least 91 people have died



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The spokesman for the firefighters also announced Sunday that there were twenty-five missing, six days after the fires that ravaged the eastern coast of Attica.

 On July 29, burials succeed in the Orthodox Church of the Greek village of Mati, after the fires that killed at least 91 people.

The fire services have revised Sunday to the rise, to at least ninety-one deaths, the report of the fires that ravaged Monday the eastern coast of Attica and mainly the martyred locality of Mati. The previous official toll was eighty-eight dead on Saturday.

The spokesman for firefighters, Stavroula Malliri, also for the first time encrypted the number of missing to twenty-five. The absence of such a census, six days after the fires, was receiving increasing criticism against the authorities. Some of them, if not all, could be among the 28 victims, whose bodies are still under examination by the forensic scientists have not yet been identified, said Spyros Georgiou, the spokesperson of the Protection

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According to firefighter spokesman Stavroula Malliri, fifty-nine other victims found charred or drowned while trying to flee at sea were identified Sunday night. Four wounded have also succumbed to the hospital, she said. Among these victims are an undetermined number of children, many of whom have become faces of tragedy: nine-year-old twins, an 11- and 13-year-old brother and sister, a 13-year-old, and a six-month-old infant.

Controversy over the management of the crisis by the Greek authorities

Four foreign victims have also been reported so far: an Irish groom on a honeymoon, a mother and a Polish son, and a Belgian Teenage girl was saved.

The controversy over the management of the crisis by the authorities also went up a notch Sunday, the right-wing and centrist opposition accusing the government of initially concealing the losses

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The firefighters also pursued Sunday their search for causes of the disaster, the government favoring a criminal track. According to the daily Kathimerini, a first investigation report would prefer the path of criminal negligence, with a fire ignited by a resident of the area to burn leaves and dead branches.

The inventory of material damage was continued by elsewhere. According to the Ministry of Infrastructure, 3,366 buildings were surveyed Saturday, including a thousand of them clbadified as uninhabitable and 800 very damaged.

                        

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