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Irish bride on her honeymoon is hospitalised and her new husband is still missing as the Greek fire death toll rises to 79 - including 26 who hugged each other as they were overcome by flames near a cliff-edge


An Irish bride on her honeymoon has been injured in the Greek fire tragedy that has killed more than seventy people, and her new husband was still missing last night.


Zoe Holohan and Brian O’Callaghan-Westropp were married in Ireland just last Thursday and had been honeymooning close to the town of Mati, the worst-affected area in an inferno that killed at least 79 people.
The couple were being driven away from the fires which ravaged the town when Zoe, who works at Independent News & Media, and Brian, an operations and HR manager in Dublin, were separated. 
She received burn injuries in the fire but was last night being treated at a local hospital, while family and friends were waiting anxiously for news of Brian’s whereabouts.
An Irish bride on her honeymoon has been injured in the Greek fire tragedy that has killed more than seventy people, and her new husband was still missing last night. Zoe Holohan and Brian O’Callaghan-Westropp were married in Ireland just last Thursday and had been honeymooning close to the town of Mati, the worst-affected area in an inferno that killed at least 79 people
The couple had been dating for a few years before Brian popped the question to Zoe in Portugal last year.

Witnesses reported how the blaze swept through the holiday area ‘like a flamethrower’, leaving at least 79 people dead, including young children. At least two tourists drowned when a boat capsized trying to rescue them from gale-driven forest fires.

A mother and son from Poland died when the vessel flipped in the water amid rough seas after picking up guests from a hotel in Mati as forest fires tore through the resort, 25 miles from Athens.

It was originally reported that all ten on board had been killed, but it was later said that it was not known what happened to the the eight remaining passengers.

In the same village, a number of holidaymakers and locals were burned alive, some of them trapped in their cars in traffic jams, as hundreds tried to flee the raging inferno, which also devoured more than a thousand homes.
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