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Images show an area near the village of Navi on the Greek island of Rhodes left charred by wildfires, which have raged around the country for weeks. Hundreds of firefighters backed by European Union reinforcements have been struggling to contain the flames on Rhodes, as well as on the islands of Corfu and Evia, in addition to a new front that erupted on July 26 in central Greece. IMAGES
Emergency services combat wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes. Tens of thousands of people have already fled blazes on the island, with many tourists scrambling to get home on evacuation flights. IMAGES
Wildfires that prompted thousands of tourists to flee continue to rage on the Greek island of Rhodes. Firefighters tackled blazes that erupted in peak tourism season, sparking the country's largest-ever wildfire evacuation -- and leaving flights and holidays cancelled. IMAGES
Thousands of travellers have gathered at Rhodes international airport, hoping to leave the Greek island where firefighters have counted more than 46 new wildfires in the last 24 hours. According to the authorities, more than 30,000 people have had to flee the fires burning across the popular tourist destination in "the largest evacuation operation ever carried out in Greece", where temperatures have reached 45 degrees Celsius. IMAGES
Fires in Greece this summer will burn an area of at least 150,000 hectares (370,600), the Greek prime minister says including a large fire in the north which has been burning for nearly two weeks. The area ravaged by fires "will exceed 1,500,000,000 square metres (150,000 hectares)... the most serious one was the one at Dadia forest", says Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the forest fire that the EU has branded the largest ever recorded in the bloc. SOUNDBITE
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