New details are emerging in the case of the British national found dead inside a suitcase in Kypseli, with police now convinced that the perpetrator is the 26-year-old Afghan man arrested in connection with the crime.

While firefighters are fighting a titanic battle on the front lines of the fire, criminals found the opportunity to break into their cars.

Wildfires burning across Attica and Boeotia for a third consecutive night have scorched roughly 111,000 stremmata (about 27,400 acres), Greek weather service Meteo said, as authorities issued fresh evacuation orders and firefighters battled flames encircling homes near the villages of Agios Nektarios and Kryo Pigadi.

Two firefighting helicopters collided while battling a wildfire near Psatha, on the border of Attica and Boeotia, killing a Danish pilot and a Greek flight coordinator-translator, hospital officials said.