Emergency services said that 11 of the injured were in a critical condition, while warning that the casualty toll was expected to rise as authorities continued to receive reports of missing people, Efe news reported. Fires first broke on Monday near Kineta and continued to burn through the night, forcing authorities to issue an evacuation order for visitors and residents. Wildfires have been ravaging Greece tourist hotspots of Athens, Mati and Kineta forcing Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to declare a state of emergency. Greece has called on the EU for assistance and said Cyprus offered firefighters to help them battle the blazes and Spain offered to contribute aircrafts capable of dropping water on the flames.
The death toll from the wildfires in Greece rises to 80 people while many others are still missing.