Twelve days after the devastating fire east of Athens, the exact death toll was still unclear as the National Observatory of Athens published a map on Friday showing that 70 percent of the land in the seaside area of Mati has been destroyed.
The remaining 30 percent of the land escaped the fire or was partially torched.
The observatory took photos of the fire-stricken area using a drone for the purposes of providing information to the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry.
There is confusion however on the exact death toll, with figures diverging between coroners and the fire department.
On July 27, coroners announced they had performed autopsies on the remains of 86 people, while one more person died that day in a hospital.
Three days later on July 30, coast guard divers recovered the body of a man from the sea off the coast of the decimated resort area, which would bring the number of dead to 88.
The fire service, however, which has been issuing the official death toll, put the number of dead on Thursday night at 87, including two unidentified, unclaimed bodies and four people who died in hospitals.
Neither the coroners’ office nor the fire department could explain the discrepancy.
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