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Burned house and cars are seen following a wildfire near the village of Melini, in the Larnaca mountain region, Cyprus July 4, 2021. Reuters/George Christophorou pic
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ARAKAPAS, July 5 Cyprus said a deadly forest fire that was the worst to hit the island in decades was close to being brought under control Sunday after water bombing by Greek and Israeli aircraft.
Fanned by strong winds, the fire broke out Saturday afternoon and swept through the southern foothills of the Troodos mountain range as the country grappled with a blistering heatwave.
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Firefighters in Cyprus said on Monday they had brought under control the island s worst blaze on record, which ripped through mountain forests and farmland, killing four people and destroying scores of homes.
Water-bombing planes from Greece and Israel and British aircraft from bases on the Mediterranean island helped douse the huge fire, which blackened 55 square kilometres of the Troodos Mountains.
The Cyprus Forestry Department said the fire that broke out on Saturday. came under full control today on Monday morning local time.
The fire - described by the forestry department as the worst since the Republic of Cyprus establishment in 1960 - killed four Egyptian labourers, destroyed 50 homes, damaged power lines and forced the evacuation of 10 villages.
Cyprus worst forest fire in decades kills four
published : 5 Jul 2021 at 07:45 A Spanish Air Tractor firefighting plane dumps water on the southern slopes of the Troodos mountains close to Agioi Vavatsinias village as a major fire continues to burn on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus on July 4, 2021
ARAKAPAS (CYPRUS) - Cyprus said a deadly forest fire that was the worst to hit the island in decades was close to being brought under control Sunday after water bombing by Greek and Israeli aircraft.
Fanned by strong winds, the fire broke out Saturday afternoon and swept through the southern foothills of the Troodos mountain range as the country grappled with a blistering heatwave.
NICOSIA: The carcasses of chicken that died from heat and smoke inhalation near a village on the southern slopes
of Troodos mountains as a major fire burns on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. The blaze has killed four people so far, destroyed homes and forced evacuation of villages. AFP
ARAKAPAS: A huge forest blaze in Cyprus killed four people, destroyed homes and forced evacuations of villages, police said on Sunday, as Greece, Israel and other countries deployed fire-fighting planes to the Mediterranean island.
The Egyptian government said the four dead were agricultural workers from the North African country, while Nicosia vowed in a tweet to “stand by the victims’ families in the face of this tragedy, offering every support”.
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