Greece offers up to 1 mln euro reward for arsonists

Sun Aug 26, 2007 2:47pm EDT
 
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece offered a reward of up to 1 million euros ($1.36 million) on Sunday for information leading to the arrest of any arsonists responsible for a spate of forest fires that have killed at least 56 people in the past three days.

"The reward is set between 100,000 to 1 million euros for every arson, depending on whether death or serious injury occurred and the size of the damage," the Public Order Ministry said in a statement.

Unchecked forest fires have killed 56 people and burned more than 500 homes, businesses and tens of thousands of hectares of forest since Friday, with the government declaring a nationwide state of emergency.

 

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