In search of dozens of missing persons in East Attica – National tragedy with 76 dead – Greece

Light beams of glbades in the hands of dozens of people of all ages, firefighters, volunteers and young children gathered in groups to search for people who did not give their life points for more than 24 hours.

The twilight gave way to the deep darkness of Mati, Rafina, Marathon, Neo Voutzas, while the CPP infrastructure was destroyed and even the drinking water pipes had become obsolete. . They shake the streets of these people, with first-aid backpacks on their shoulders and look for traces of life in those ragged cars that have not yet moved away, in homes, in the sea where they can see Someone can save the search for help last night

The indescribable tragedy has claimed the lives of 76 people up to now and caused the injury to 187 again. The agony is evident in the faces of the rescuers but also in the relatives of the missing persons, relatives who said that their own people did not come into contact with them, who stopped calling them to their relatives. mobile phones that died but that did not stop asking where they could, in hospitals, at the port, firefighters, they could learn more.

In the ruins of still-smoking homes, the blue lights of the patrol sirens on the lookout protect property that the fire has not completely destroyed. Many tenants of houses or apartments are there, exhausted, to spend the night. Others, victims of a total disaster, sought refuge with friends and relatives

. Many went to hotels because they were given free rooms. Others in the camps. Ranches were set up in municipal areas and large quantities of food were also collected. All kinds of foodstuffs and basic necessities have been accumulated in the city of Rafina, even medicines that have been brought to the aid of various people.

And the clusters of lenses continue to deceive and pierce homes, through broken windows looking for someone who is waiting to be saved. At the same time, the boxes containing the provisions collected in the municipality of Rafina are arranged, open, ready to be given to anyone who requests it.

According to Mayor Rafinas Evangelos Bournos, the death toll will rise to three digits while the houses will burn. they touch the 2,000.
For its part, Mayor Marathon Elias Psinakis reported that there are 40 missing persons

Just before 8 pm Tuesday, in a house Matic burned, the firefighters spotted a dead elderly couple. Thus, the number of missing persons is greater than 100.

According to the announcement of the fire department, published a few hours ago, the deaths are 74, 164 adults injured and 23 children. Firefighters have received dozens of calls for missing persons and are calling on the world to contact 199 to report information about the people they are looking for.

More importantly, the difficult task of locating missing persons is not over. firefighters and other services received dozens of calls, and patrols of 130 members of the armed forces and firefighters, in the Voutsa, Mati and Rafina regions, are carried out on foot

After updated data from the Ministry of Health, 71 inpatients are hospitalized in hospitals, of which 10 are infected. Many of those originally transferred or arrived at their homes in hospitals have already been released, while others will be able to leave after 48 hours.

A little after 5 o'clock in the afternoon, twelve children were released from hospitals where they were hospitalized. with fire problems, according to the Ministry of Health.

Early morning, the bodies of 26 people, kissed, were found in a field in the region of Argyris Akti in Mati, who were trapped in their efforts to be saved from the flames

Two Poles among the dead

Two Poles, a mother and her son, are among the victims of the deadly fires in Greece, as confirmed by the Polish Foreign Ministry, quoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chinese news agency Xinhua

. ] During the update of writers' publications in Warsaw, the representative of Arturo Lombard confirmed that a woman and her son are among the 10 other people who drowned while they were trying to leave their hotel to escape the flames by boarding a boat that then sank.

Yannis Smigielski, spokesman for the travel agency Grecos with whom the victims traveled, informed that the agency is in constant contact with the embbady and the airline company. insurance. He also provided psychological badistance to the family members of the victims.

According to the travel agency, 435 of its clients are currently located in the Attica region, with some thirty of them returning to Poland tomorrow while the remaining 400 will find themselves away from the danger zone.

How many are hospitalized

According to the official statement issued by the Ministry of Health following the discharges given to hospitals, it remains:

-GNA "Evangelismos": 17 patients hospitalized and 6 intubated,

– GNA "KAT": 3 patients hospitalized and 4 cannabis patients,

– Γ.Α.Α. "Sismanoglio": 26 hospitalized,

– Γ.Ν. Elefsina "Thriasio": 9 hospitals,

-PNG. "Attikon": 6 hospitalized and

– Gnopidon A. "Sophia": 23 hospitalized (children).

Fears for More Victims

At the same time, more victims are feared because many phone calls have been made to missing persons in the Fire Department, including

Among the victims, there are many young children, including one child, including one child, six months old.

The images the lens recorded by the eye of the eye recalls the tragedy of Ilia in 2007. Car bugs on a road leading to the beach, which their owners were abandoning, attempting to d & rsquo; Escape the flames that circulated them quickly

The government set the plan for managing human losses and all victims are transferred to the morgue of Goudi to identify them

The flag of Parliament ends with a mandate of President Nikos Voutsis after the tragedy that struck Attica

All deaths up to now have been found in the area between Rafina and Nea Makri, especially at Mati and Kokkino Limanaki, where they were trapped by flames in homes and cars or have fleeing the sea

From the information to the present, the wounded have increased to 150, of which 11 are intubated in hospitals

As for the image of the fires, according to the Fire Department, they are still in course and all three Attica (Kineta, East Attica, Kalamos), as well as the main fires that occurred yesterday in the rest of Greece, especially in Corinthia (Zenomenos, Isthmia Loutraki, Throfari) and Chania. Two new fires occurred at night in Fokida prefecture, in inaccessible forest areas, at Larynna and Chlomos, where no residential area was threatened

At day one, at namely five helicopters at Kinetta, three helicopters and two Canadators in East Attica, a helicopter at Chania, a plane and a helicopter at Zeromenos of Korinthia and a helicopter at Larimna

At Kinetta and Attica from the east there are many scattered chimneys, while ep

In Kalamos, according to the fire department, the situation is better, but there are also many outbreaks in the perimeter of the fire