Efforts are continuing to contain blazes in a number of Mediterranean countries.
Evacuation orders have been issued for areas close to two central Greek cities threatened by new outbreaks of wildfires.
Kostas Agorastos, mayor of Greece's Thessaly region, which includes Volos, has accused "brainless workers" of starting the fire, according to the Ellada 24 news channel., where a state of emergency is in place and from where thousands of tourists have been forced to flee, high winds have continued to fan the flames and villages remain at risk."Every day, every night, we are here and we achieve nothing," Savas Filaderis, who is from Rhodes, told the Reuters news agency.
The church of St Benedict the Moor in the Sicilian city of Palermo was among the buildings that have been destroyed in the fires.Enrico Trantino, the mayor of Catania, another city on the island, told the BBC the high temperatures had melted underground electrical cables, which had left parts of the city without power and water., with more than 30 victims, including 10 soldiers surrounded by flames during an evacuation in the coastal province of Bejaia, east of Algiers.
But Yamina Saheb, lead author on the United Nations' climate change panel, known as the IPCC, told the BBC that people in the African region felt they were being left to fend for themselves without international help.Ms Saheb said she had spoken to friends and colleagues in the affected areas, who were finding it hard to understand why there was no European aid when they were so close to the continent.
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