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Greek wildfires: Your pictures

Reflected smoke. Photo: Manos Venardos

Firefighters in Greece are battling wildfires in the northeast of the capital, Athens. Investment banker Manos Venardos lives near the fire at Lake Marathon, and saw what it looked like reflected in his wing mirror.

Smokey sun. Photo: Charles Magee

Charles Magee noticed how the smoke reduced the sun's strength while he was sitting on the rooftop of a youth hostel, near the Acropolis.

Photo: Julie Warren

The view from Julie Warren's balcony in Neos Kosmos, central Athens. Julie said thick, black smoke obscured the sun at 08.30 local time...

Photo: Julie Warren

...and 12 hours later the smoke still remained. Photo: Julie Warren.

Smoke over Mount Lykavithos. Photo: Anna Papanicolau

Anna Papanicolau also saw the smoke over Mount Lykavithos in Athens.

Photo: Panagiotis Mardakis

Panagiotis Mardakis told the BBC website that explosions can be heard coming from houses, which are on fire. This photo was taken in Marathon.

A burning woodland in Stamata. Photo: Chris Koutsos

Chris Koutsos, a volunteer at a fire fighting station, sent this picture of a burning woodland in Stamata, near Marathon.

Smoke coverage in Stamata. Photo: Chris Koutsos

This photo from Chris Koutsos shows the extent of the smoke coverage in Stamata at 1800 on Saturday.

Photo: Chris Koutsos

And another showing the flames close to the roadside. Photo: Chris Koutsos.

A firefighter in Agios Stefanos. Photo: Chris Koutsos

A firefighter in Agios Stefanos. Photo: Chris Koutsos

Fires. Photo: Lambros Grigoropoulos

Lambros Grigoropoulos was up at 2am to get this shot in Holargos, Athens, which is about 18km east of the fires.

Photo: Renate Crone-Papageorgiou

Sunset in Porto Rafti, 30km south of Athens. Renate Crone-Papageorgiou: "All day long the sky was dark from the smoke of the fires in the Marathon area."

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