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Residents accuse authorities of failing to protect a precious forestland that is home to more than 1000 species including red deer and wolves.

The situation escalated as firefighting forces from across Greece and even neighbouring European countries rallied to combat the widespread blazes

Greek firefighters struggled on Friday to contain scores of blazes stretching nationwide -- the largest fires in the European Union this year.The Alexandroupoli wildfires are now the largest in the EU on record for 2023 and the second largest since 2000, according to the bloc. 

A massive wildfire that ignited last Saturday in Greeces northeastern Evros region has been declared the countrys most extensive blaze in the past two decades, according to a statement by the National Observatory of Athens on Thursday.

Firefighters are battling blazes near Athens and in a region where about 180,000 acres have burned, according to an E.U. official who called it a record.

Greek firefighters struggled Friday to contain scores of wildfires stretching nationwide, as the week's death toll from the raging blazes rose to 21.

In the charred Greek landscape close to the border with Turkey, a group of blackened corpses lay amid the ashes of what was once a lush forest that offered migrants the perfect cover to cross into the European Union. Two of the 18 dead were children.The group of presumed migrants were found near the

Blazes in Greece burned for a seventh day on Friday, destroying tens of thousands of hectares of land in the northeast alone, in what the EU-backed Copernicus Climate Change Service said was the largest recorded wildfire on European soil in years. "Greece is going through the most difficult year, in terms of climatic conditions, in the history of recording and collecting meteorological data," government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis told a regular briefing. Fire crews were battling 5...

EVROS, Greece/ATHENS (Reuters) -In the charred Greek landscape close to the border with Turkey, a group of blackened corpses lay amid the ashes of what was once a lush forest that offered migrants the perfect cover to cross into the European Union. A group of 18 migrants were found on Tuesday near the village of Avantas in northeastern Greece where a fierce wildfire swept with devastating speed, one of hundreds across the country fuelled by high temperatures and whipped up by gale force winds. N

Residents accuse authorities of failing to protect a precious forestland that is home to more than 1000 species including red deer and wolves.