Greek firefighters battled large bush and forest fires on the outskirts of Athens and in Greece’s southern Peloponnese region, where flames forced the evacuation of at least three villages and two summer camps.

Hundreds of tourists ended holidays early at resorts in northern Greece today, as a fire raged for a third day on the Halkidiki holiday peninsula.

Firefighters raced today to exploit a lull in winds fanning a wildfire that ravaged holiday resorts in northern Greece, leaving a German tourist dead and dozens of people injured.