A Canadian-built plane fighting wildfires in Greece crashed on Tuesday, as Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned of tough days ahead, with blazes destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of thousands of tourists from the island of Rhodes.
State broadcaster ERT showed footage of the plane dropping water over a fire, then crashing into a hillside and bursting into flames.
The Greek air force said there were two airmen aboard the amphibious Canadair CL-215 plane when it crashed over the island of Evia, east of Athens.
Two helicopters had rushed to the scene to carry out a search and rescue operation, the air force
