Fire emergency declared

Athens - Authorities declared a state of emergency yesterday in Arcadia, in the southern Greek Peloponnese region, as a raging…

Athens - Authorities declared a state of emergency yesterday in Arcadia, in the southern Greek Peloponnese region, as a raging blaze forced the evacuation of three villages and threatened three others. Two people were killed and six were missing in a forest fire that swept through a village in north-west Greece.

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