Greece is experiencing an environmental catastrophe. Forest fires are raging through the centre and south of the country, from the Peloponnese to the island of Evoia, near Athens. Sixty-three people have been killed and scores more injured as of 26 August 2007 (a figure that seems certain to rise); many thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes, amid the destruction of entire villages and cultivated landscapes.
Chronis Polychroniou
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