Officials raise death toll in Greece fire to 91; 25 missing

MATI, Greece — Fire officials in Greece raised the death toll from a wildfire that raged through a coastal area east of Athens to 91 and reported that 25 people were missing Sunday, six days after Europe’s deadliest forest fire in more than a century.

Before the national fire service updated the official number of fatalities, it stood at 86 as hundreds of mourners attended a Sunday morning memorial service for the victims in the seaside village hardest-hit by the blaze.

The fire sped flames through the village of Mati on July 23. A database maintained by the Centre for the Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters in Brussels shows it as the deadliest wildfire in Europe since 1900.

The vast majority of victims died in the fire itself, though a number drowned in the sea while fleeing the flames.

Authorities say a homeless man rescued a woman who jumped from a bridge near downtown Minneapolis. University of Minnesota police ssaid the woman jumped from a bridge around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. The Star Tribune reported that a homeless man heard the woman fall and leaped into the water to rescue her.

The Federal Aviation Administration said no American Airlines flights took off nationwide for about 40 minutes Sunday because of an outage at the carrier’s main operating system and dispatch operation. The agency said the system was restored around 2:45 p.m. and flights were allowed to resume.