Hundreds of firefighters battle raging Greece wildfire

Hundreds of Greek firefighters continued to fight against a huge blaze on Monday, in what has been Europe's deadliest wildfire this summer. (AP Photo)

The wildfire in Greece, that has killed at least 20 people till now, is still raging for the tenth consecutive day unleashing record-setting heatwaves. (AP Photo)

The fire began near the city of Alexandroupolis and has since been turbocharged by near-gale force winds and high temperatures in northeastern Greece’s Evros region. (AP Photo)

The European Union backed Copernicus Climate Change Service said the Evros blaze had burned more than 77,000 hectares of land, making it one of the biggest on European soil in years. (AP Photo)

Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said the country’s Climate Crisis and Civil Protection minister and other senior government ministers had visited the area to assess the damage. (AP Photo)

“It is the definition of what we call a megafire,” Marinakis told a regular briefing. (AP Photo)

Scores of people have had to flee their homes across Greece as hundreds of wildfires erupted across the country in the second major fire outbreak of this summer. (AP Photo)

In July, some 20,000 foreign tourists were evacuated from the island of Rhodes where a wildfire burned resorts and hotels. (AP Photo)