Athens, July 18 (BNA) A wildfire raged out of control in northwest Athens for a second day on Tuesday, forcing more residents to flee their homes and prompting the Greek prime minister to urgently return home from a summit in Brussels.
Officials said the front of fire stretched for more than eight kilometres. “We are living a nightmare,” Christos Stathis, the mayor of Mandra, told OpenTV. Homes and properties are burning.
A Reuters witness said a cloud of white smoke rose over Mandara after an explosion was heard. Mandra was hit by flash floods in 2017, reports Reuters.
The fire, which broke out on Monday in the district of Dervinochoria, about 30 kilometers north of Athens, spread rapidly as it was fanned by erratic winds and reached Mandara, west of the capital, on Tuesday, forcing people to flee and burning homes.
Recently re-elected Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis cut short his trip to Brussels, where he was attending an EU-Latin America summit, earlier on Tuesday.
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