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ALEXANDROUPOLIS, Greece -- Firefighters on Tuesday found the burnt bodies of 18 people believed to have been migrants who had crossed the Turkish border into an area of northeastern Greece where wildfires have raged for days.

The bodies of 18 males were found in a forest in northern Greece where fires have burned for days.

The preliminary data will be corrected when the fires have been contained and satellite data of higher resolution are available, Meteo said.

Extreme heat has turned much of the country into a tinderbox. More than 350 fires have broken out in the past five days, the government said.

Firefighters are struggling to quell deadly flames, part of a crisis of wildfires in the nation this summer. Here are photos from the latest blazes.

Those who perished had made the perilous crossing in the Evros region near the border with Turkey and had been hiding in forests north of the port city Alexandroupolis.

Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - The burned bodies of 18 suspected migrants have been found in a remote rural area in northern Greece where wildfires have been burning for several days. Firefighters are desperately trying to douse the flames with water but the blaze is raging through the Evros region in northeastern Greece and close to…

Reacting to the deaths of 19 people, likely migrants and refugees, on 21 and 22 August in fires affecting the Evros region, Northern Greece, Adriana Tidona, migration researcher at Amnesty International said: “The 19 people killed by wildfires in northern Greece appear to be victims of two great injustices of our times. On the one hand, catastrophic climate change, which governments are failing to address and is worsening the scale of wildfires worldwide as rising temperatures lead to longer a...

Greek minister says 355 wildfires have broken out since Friday with 209 new blazes in the last 48 hours alone.

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