SYRIZA says migrants have become scapegoats for the government's failure to deal effectively with the deadly fires that have swept several parts of the country.
Volunteers try to extinguish a blaze in a house as a wildfire rages in Menidi, near Athens, Greece, on Wednesday.
Greece’s main opposition SYRIZA party has warned against a rise in anti-migrant sentiment over allegations that wildfires in the northern Evros region were started by some migrants., including two boys aged between 10 and 15, are believed to be migrants. Their bodies were found near a shack in a burnt forest area near Alexandroupolis in northeastern Greece.
The wildfire in the Alexandroupolis region, burning for a sixth day, combined with smaller fires to create a massive blaze that consumed homes and vast tracts of forest and triggered multiple evacuations of villages and of the city's hospital.
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