Wildfires have claimed most lives in Algeria, but blazes are also widespread in Greece and Italy.
More than 40 people have died - most of them in Algeria - in the Mediterranean wildfires threatening villages and holiday resorts, and thousands have been evacuated.
The current long heatwave shows no let-up - temperatures are expected to rise above 44C in parts of Greece.High winds and tinder-dry vegetation mean firefighters are struggling in many areas to douse the flames and create firebreaks., where the 34 victims included 10 soldiers surrounded by flames during an evacuation in the coastal province of Bejaia, east of Algiers. Bejaia is the worst-hit area, accounting for 23 of the deaths, local media report.
A team of climate scientists - the World Weather Attribution group - said this month's intense heatwave in Southern Europe, North America and China would have beenOn the island of Rhodes more than 20,000 people have been evacuated from homes and resorts in the south in recent days. An airport official told AFP news agency that more than 5,000 had flown home on more than 40 emergency flights between Sunday and Tuesday.
On the island of Evia, just north of Athens, two pilots died when their Canadair firefighting plane crashed into a ravine. Elsewhere on the island a man's charred body was found in a remote rural shack.
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