Firefighters try to tackle a wildfire burning on Chios island, Greece, June 23, 2025. REUTERS/Konstantinos Anagnostou
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has arrested a Georgian woman suspected of discarding a cigarette that helped trigger one of several wildfires razing land and threatening homes on the island of Chios.
Blazes broke out on Chios in the Aegean Sea on Sunday and tore through 10,000 acres of mainly bush and pasture land in three days, Greece's climate crisis and civil protection ministry said on Wednesday.
