Hundreds of people were evacuated by boat from an island near Athens as Greece braced for a fourth day of wildfires.

631 people have been rescued from three beaches on the island of Evia.

On the mainland, the skies of Athens were again clouded by thick smoke from wildfires on the northern outskirts of the city, which burst back into life after dying down earlier in the week.

A number of suburbs have been evacuated as the fire burned around the main highway linking Athens to northern Greece.

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