Tour operators began flying home holidaymakers as wildfires raged on the Greek island of Rhodes on Monday and officials said the threat of further fires was high in almost every region of the country.
as an inferno reached coastal resorts on the island's southeast. A wildfire also forced evacuations from the island of Corfu."For the next few weeks we must be on constant alert. We are at war, we will rebuild what we lost, we will compensate those who were hurt," Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis told parliament.
After leaving hotels and resorts, tourists spent the night on Rhodes airport floor, waiting for repatriation flights, the first of which came overnight. British Foreign Office Minister Andrew Mitchell estimated that up to 10,000 Britons were on the island.
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