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C-27 J Spartan aircraft commander: It was a surprise for us to see the magnitude of wildfires in Greece

Florin Ianculescu, commander of the C-27 J Spartan aircraft dispatched by Romania to extinguish wildfires in Greece, says he was unpleasantly surprised by the magnitude of the fires in the vicinity of Athens.

He told the Romanian public radio broadcaster on Thursday that that the Romanian Air Force's aircraft already participated in containing outbreaks in western Athens.

Scores of young Swaziland girls heading to ‘reed dance’ die in traffic collision

The deaths of scores of young women and teen girls in Swaziland headed to a controversial “reed dance” continued to spark outrage this over the weekend in southern Africa, with questions swirling over why such a large group was being transported on a flatbed truck.