Anger in Greece at government handling of wild fires...

The Greek government faced a backlash today over its handling of fires that have devoured over 120,000 hectares of countryside and forest, killing wildlife and destroying hundreds of cars, homes and monasteries.

Nearly two years to the day after some of the country's worst ever wildfires left scores of people dead, many Greeks were asking how a single fire in a suburb on the outskirts of the capital could spread with such seeming ease and leave such a trail of devastation.

"It seems that no one has learned the lessons from the fires of 2007," said the populist rightwing leader and head of the LAOS party, Giorgos Karadzerferis. Even the most basic provisions, including tents for those forced to abandon their properties, had failed to materialise, he said. "It is quite unbelievable." More...

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