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The Greek Prime Minister decreed three days of national mourning after the devastating fires that struck some localities near Athens
15 outbreaks occurred almost simultaneously on three different fronts. According to the Athenian press, the plan of intervention was deficient, leaving some of the affected areas completely discovered. It's like that at least 79 people have died, including dozens of kids. Romania sent two planes this morning to help the Greeks.
UPDATE 15.34 The victim's file has been updated to 80, according to The Guardian and Reuters.
UPDATE 13:30 The mechanisms of the state taken by surprise and the lack of an emergency plan are indicated in the Greek press as the main causes of the tragedy of Mati. It was at that time that government officials, including Prime Minister Tsipras, spoke of deliberately fired fires due to real estate interests. However, experienced firefighters admit that a massive mobilization – in personnel and equipment – to extinguish the fire that erupted in Kineta, in western Attica, has completely put in day the situation to Mati.
UPDATE 12:30 An up-to-date review of deaths in Greece increases the number of deaths in Greece
UPDATE 11:10 A mayor of the region told BBC NEWS that the number of dead people is 77. The Greek authorities are looking for dozens of people still missing
UPDATE 9:40 Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu said Wednesday morning that the information provided to the Romanian authorities show that there are no Romanians affected by violent fires in Greece. SEE FULL DECLARATION
UPDATE 9:30 am Defense Minister Mihai Fifor announced that two planes were taking off on Wednesday at Base 90 in support of the Greek authorities, a country experiencing a wave of unfamiliarity. 39; fires. According to the MApN, the two planes will take off around 10:00
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UPDATE 7:00 The pay reaches 74 dead and 187 injured, increase. Authorities claim that 15 fires were fired simultaneously on three different fronts
A criminal investigation was opened on the causes of the fire, after appeared that some could have been triggered by thieves who were flying houses. Mati, a holiday village 30 kilometers from the center of Athens, was simply removed from the map by the fire that began Monday afternoon
The flames were scattered like lightning , favored by dry vegetation and gas bottles in holiday homes. When they saw themselves encircled, for hundreds of locals and tourists, the escape was the beach.
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Localnic : "Everything happened very quickly There are deaths in the streets,"
Although you are relieved of the pain, you can not help it. to be alive, the survivors are haunted by what they saw
AFP [19659011] Localnic : "We entered the water to save ourselves All burned, there was no longer nothing A girl fell off a cliff and died I was in the sea and I felt the heat coming towards "It's a lava."
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Localnic: "What makes my heart more and more difficult is that I've seen people drowning near me without being able to help them." It was tragedy.
The streets of the small colony were quickly overpopulated, some were blocked by flames, and many were trapped
Savior : "Unfortunately, the cars did not have any. Where to go. It was a child who had been burned here, an old man who was still living there, but he did not survive. Two there and four more there. "
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and tried to get on the beach, jump fences and cross the yard.That's what they tried to do and 26 people have all The owner of the house had managed to save himself earlier with another group of stranded foreigners
Lolcalnic : "We opened the door on the side and on the sea, and we went to the beach. From what I understand, 26 other people arrived too late and burned or sunk in my garden. They did not manage to find the way to the sea. "
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:" With me, 25 people ran to the sea, toddlers shouting at the elders, some jumped directly on the rocks, broke their legs, and could not move, I stayed 5 hours in the sea. "
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In addition to the growing list of deaths, there are also many missing persons, people their loved ones search among the smoking ruins of homes and the streets full of charred cars
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