Burns in different parts of the Attica – Hell of fire in Greece, more than a hundred people are to be feared | world

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Athens – The Hell descended on Eastern Attica just outside Athens. A very violent fire of probable criminal origin, started yesterday from several points and fueled by the heat and strong summer winds, killed at least 74 people until now – but the budget should exceed one hundred while Firefighters sift charred houses – especially in the vacation resorts of Neos Voutsas and Mati near Rafina, the second largest harbor in the region. ;Athens.

In hospitals in the capital there were 164 wounded, burned or poisoned by smoking, including 23 children . The flames burned more than a thousand buildings and destroyed hundreds of cars. Thousands of people are evacuated and fleeing. A huge tragedy that strikes the country during the tourist season with horrible details, especially with regard to Mati, a small town where many Greeks have second homes. Here, trapped by the flames, 26 people seem to be part of the same family or group of friends, they died together charred while seeking a way to escape to the sea . Among them were dismayed witnesses, mothers found hugging their children, in a desperate attempt to protect them.

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from Facebook, some images taken in the Nea Makri area: you can see people fleeing on the beach and even a stale dog who has taken refuge on a rock

A new tragic Pompeii. Some people – including two Polish citizens – were drowned once they arrived at the sea . Five corpses were recovered from the Greek Coast Guard, including one from a child, off Artemida, not far from Rafina. But the sea represented salvation for hundreds of others who spilled onto the beaches of the region, jumping into the water and beginning to swim. Some said that they had desperately reached the open sea, and they stayed there for hours because the fire was almost at the water's edge.

All survivors spoke of the speed of the fires that hit them in homes, hotels, cars or along roads. Many have spoken of " fire like lava flows " that advanced swallowing all . Along the streets, car wrecks are an impressive scene tonight. While the last homes are extinguished – in 24 hours, throughout Greece, there were 47 fires, some very important in Corinth, Chania, Crete – the high number of phone calls from people who Do not have any expensive news in the area at toll-free numbers created by Hellenic Emergency Preparedness and the dozens of missing photos posted on social media fears that the death toll may even exceed a hundred. Hundreds of people, from all military and civilian bodies of the state, participate in the rescue. At the time, announced in the evening the Farnesina Crisis Unit are not untraceable Italians nor admitted to the wounded.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who proclaimed three days of national mourning, promised in a dramatic speech aired on television that "nothing will be left unanswered" about the causes of the fires. A clear allusion to the fact that the Greek government suspects that the fires are malevolent since the flames erupted in different and distant places. Tsipras himself, in the morning, had spoken of "asymmetrical fires". Some Greek media speculate that the pyromaniacs went into action to loot the houses abandoned by the Turi

sti or for reasons of construction of speculation. But this will only be clarified by surveys.

On the scene of the disaster, Tsipras declared that "today Greece is in mourning and in memory of those who have died, we declare three days of national mourning but we should not not to let mourning overwhelm because it's a time to fight, to be united, brave. It's a struggle to save what can be saved, a struggle to defeat the fire, a struggle to find the missing, so as not to cry for other lives and alleviate the suffering of those affected.There are no words to describe our feelings in these moments- there: the country lives an indescribable tragedy, dozens of human lives have disappeared and it is unbearable for everyone, especially for families who have lost their loved ones. "

Solidarity world arrived in Greece in shock, with the help, the means and the men. es from the United States, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Spain, Israel, the European Union, even Turkey's "enemy": everyone said that & ## 147; He was ready to help. Italy as announced by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, immediately made available two Canadair . The catastrophic fire brought back to the Greek spirit another fire-related mbadacre: in 2007, 60 people died in fires that broke out in the Peloponnese

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