Wildfires continue to rip through Greek island of Evia

Wildfires are continuing to rip through the Greek island of Evia with strong winds driving flames towards villages.

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More than 2,000 people have already been evacuated from the island, many of those by ferry.

Euboea or Evia is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete.

It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait.

Euboea was believed to have originally formed part of the mainland, and to have been separated from it by an earthquake. This is fairly probable, because it lies in the neighbourhood of a fault line.