Homes flooded as storms batter Athens and fire-hit Greek island

People wade through water after evacuating a bus stuck in a flooded underpass in Athens (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

Severe storms have swept across Greece, flooding hundreds of homes in Athens and prompting evacuations on the island of Evia that was ravaged by summer wildfires.

Rescuers were also preparing to use helicopters to lift stranded people off rooftops in flooded and remote areas on the north-western island of Corfu, said civil protection and climate change minister Christos Stylianides.