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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Four major wildfire fronts still active on Sun.; death toll at 52

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Four major wildfire fronts still active on Sun.; death toll at 52

The most threatening blazes were centred in the southwest Peloponnese, the hardest hit area so far; in two districts in southern Evia island, Aliveri and Styra, as well as southeast of Athens proper at the suburban Kalyvia township.

An undetermined number of people are unaccounted for, authorities said, saying fears of an even higher death toll, while dozens of individuals, mostly in the southern Peloponnese, were hospitalised. Thousands of hectares of crops, pasture land and forests were scorched.

Fire-fighters looked to weaker winds and assistance from a half dozen neighbouring and west European countries -- in the form of fire-fighting aircraft -- as allies on Sunday in the battle to contain the flames.

In the wake of the unprecedented natural catastrophe, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Saturday evening declared a nationwide state of emergency and promised hefty financial assistance for fire-ravaged victims and regions.

In expressing his personal "grief and rage" over the wildfires, Karamanlis also stressed that: " am angered, as are all Greeks, by the fact that so many wildfires occurred in so many different parts. This is not a coincidence."

Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of PM Costas Karamanlis.

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

ADESFEFTOS TYPOS: Terrorist mastermind behind the fires?

APOGEVMATINI: Enemy plan against our nation. Three-day national mourning

AVGI: Grief and rage

AVRIANI: State of emergency nationwide

CHORA: War: Greece under attack

ETHNOS: Mourning and rage over total destruction. 124 wildfires destroyed the country while state was planning elections

ELEFTHERI ORA: Elections should be postponed

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: State of emergency, hope sought

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: Words cannot describe it

EPOCHI: Don't set up ballot boxes on charcoal

KATHIMERINI: Fiery tragedy without mercy

LOGOS: Political fall out from fires, repercussions from national tragedy

NIKI: State burned, dozens of deaths from wildfires

PARON: Is the report a ... bomb or noisemaker? Give names Mr. Zorbas (the independent prosecutor)

PROTO THEMA: (Prime Minister Costas) Karamanlis himself morally responsible for the fires

RIZOSPASTIS: Popular vigilance and mobilization against wildfires

VIMA: Fires with question marks. National mourning for conflagration, parties campaign activities cancelled

VRADYNI: "Categorical no to increase in VAT", exclusive interview by FinMin George Alogoskou

Caption: A resident flees the flames of a wildfire near the town of Styra, in the southern part of Evia island, east of Athens, on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007. ANA-MPA / M. KIAOU.

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