Two children among 18 killed in blazes

Eighteen people died in the village of Avantas in Evros, northeastern Greece, where fires raged on Tuesday for a fourth straight day, along with dozens of new blazes.

The victims, which included two children, are believed to be migrants who apparently had not been informed of the fire's progress.

"There were a total of 18 charred bodies, all of them male and two of them children. They were found in groups of two or three across a distance of 500 meters, apparently while trying to flee. Some of them were in a barn when they burned to death," a coroner, Pavlos Pavlidis, said on Tuesday after examining the charred bodies in the port town of Alexandroupoli. 

According to a high-ranking officer of the Hellenic Police, the spot where they were found is not along the route that migrants usually follow, that is, through the mountainous area from the borderline to the...