ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece — Eighteen charred our bodies had been present in a distant village in northern Greece on Tuesday, the place wildfires have been raging for days, the fireplace brigade mentioned as a heatwave hitting southern Europe turned lethal.
Greek media, with out citing sources, mentioned the our bodies discovered south of the village of Avantas in northern Greece had been considered of migrants. The broader Evros area is a well-liked route for migrants crossing from Turkey into Greece.
On Monday, the burned physique of one other man believed to be a migrant was discovered within the area, a neighborhood police official mentioned.
Firefighters had been additionally battling blazes in Spain, Italy and Portugal as properly was two new blazes that broke out close to the Greek capital, Athens, because the area suffered scorching, dry and windy circumstances that scientists have linked to local weather change.
In Spain, the place many of the nation was in very excessive or excessive danger of wildfire as a consequence of the summer time’s fourth heatwave, authorities had been struggling to stabilize an enormous wildfire that has been ravaging forests on the island of Tenerife for per week.
Temperatures had been prone to attain or exceed 40 levels Celsius (104 levels Fahrenheit) in massive areas of the southwest and northeast of the Iberian peninsula, nationwide climate company AEMET mentioned.
In the Greek port city of Alexandroupolis, not removed from Avantason, wildfires compelled the evacuation of dozens of hospital sufferers, together with new child infants. A ferry was became a makeshift hospital after 65 sufferers had been evacuated from the University Hospital.
Elderly sufferers lay on mattresses strewn throughout the cafeteria ground, paramedics attended to others on stretchers and a girl held a person resting on a settee, an IV drip hooked up to his hand.
“I’ve been working for 27 years, I’ve never seen anything like this,” mentioned nurse Nikos Gioktsidis. “Stretchers everywhere, patients here, IV drips there…it was like a war, like a bomb had exploded.”
The burned physique of a person believed to be a migrant was present in a rural space close to Alexandroupolis on Monday, a neighborhood police official mentioned.
“Weather conditions are extreme and will remain extreme for the coming days,” Fire Service spokesman Vassilis Varthakogiannis instructed ERT TV. — Reuters
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