Holidaymakers film helicopters bringing water to fight fires over Attica

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Tourists in a popular Greek vacation spot watch helicopters try to put out wildfires as they raged high above the region of Attica.

Footage filmed on Monday evening (July 22) in Nea Makri shows helicopters approaching the huge plumes of grey smoke billowing above apartment blocks.

The fires in the region, which contains the capital of Athens, have wreaked havoc and up to 60 people thought to have died.