The climatic situation in Greece remains very worrying.
This Sunday afternoon, a water bomber plane crashed during an operation on the Ionian island of Zante.
Its pilot is safe and sound, however, AFP learned from Greek firefighters.
The Petzetel-type plane was carrying out an operation to extinguish a small fire on the island located in the west of the Greek mainland, when it crashed for an undetermined reason, according to the same source.
The disaster-stricken island of Evia
Further east, on the island of Euboea in flames, thousands of desperate inhabitants watched as the "living dead" on Sunday the blaze that consumed their villages and their lands, on the twelfth day of a wave of forest fires in Greece and Turkey.
"The battle continues", declared Greek Deputy Minister of Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias, announcing "another difficult night" for the Greeks and for the firefighters.
While most of the fires were under control in Turkey, the disaster on the island of Euboea, the second largest in Greece, remained the most worrying in the country.
"We have experienced fires, but this situation is unheard of," laments Nikos Papaioannou, a resident of Gouvès, before his village beset by flames is evacuated.
In the grip of fires for six days, this tongue of land wedged between Attica and the Aegean Sea offered an apocalyptic panorama.
Along the roads, residents sprayed their land with water, while flames engulfed the thick wooded areas.
Greece and Turkey have been experiencing an exceptional heatwave for almost two weeks.
The fires favored by scorching temperatures have killed eight people in Turkey, two in Greece, as well as dozens of hospital patients.
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