House to house, crews search for missing in wildfire aftermath

In a scorched and blackened pine forest, Dionysis Tsiroglou and his team of volunteer rescuers are searching homes ravaged by Greece's deadliest wildfire, looking for the missing.

"Their relatives are asking us to move mountains - 'I want my aunt, I want my uncle, my son, my daughter, my father, my mother'," he said.

No one can say how many are missing after a blaze that tore through the coastal resort town of Mati, east of Athens, on Monday, trapping people in their homes or cars and forcing others to jump off cliffs or into the sea.

Rescuers estimate between 60 to 100 people are still unaccounted for and authorities cannot confirm a figure.

The missing may be among the dead, the fire service said, their bodies burned beyond recognition. Photos, some of young children, have been shared on social media in an effort to track people down.

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