Dawn : Deadly fires finally out in Greece

Deadly fires finally out in Greece

September 3, 2007

ATHENS, (AFP): Forest fires that have ravaged southern Greece for the past 11 days, killing at least 64 people, were finally extinguished on Monday, fire services said.

Vast tracts in the Peloponnese peninsula and other areas and 200,000 hectares of countryside were destroyed in the fire which began on August 24.