European wildfires kill at least three as British bar worker joins emergency efforts on Greek island

Wildfires intensified across southern Europe on Wednesday with at least three deaths reported in Spain, Turkey and Albania.

Firefighting teams in several countries are struggling to contain numerous fires after weeks of heatwaves and soaring temperatures across the Mediterranean.

Emergency teams are working around the clock to protect the outskirts of Patras, Greece's third-largest city, and blazes are raging on numerous Greek islands.

A British bar worker on Zakynthos has told Sky News how he joined emergency services and locals to help combat a "shocking" fire near a popular tourist resort.

Aircraft rotated between blazes on the western Greek mainland, the Patras area and Zakynthos. On the Greek island of Chios, exhausted firefighters slept on the roadside following a night-long shif