The number of people injured in the large forest fire that has been spreading since yesterday in the northwestern Peloponnese, in southern Greece, not far from the city of Patras, has increased to eight.
So far around twenty houses have been destroyed and five villages have been evacuated. This morning at dawn nearly 300 firefighters, with 77 trucks, two firefighting planes and five helicopters, returned to the front lines to try to put out the flames.
The fire also caused huge traffic jams yesterday. The main highway connecting Corinth to Patras has been closed to traffic, as has the Rion Antirion bridge which connects the Peloponnese with mainland Greece.