A Greek fire-fighting plane crashed while battling a blaze on the Ionian Sea island of Kefalonia today, the fire brigade said.

"We are not sure about the pilot's fate," said a fire official who declined to be named.

Greece's water-drop planes fought hard to bring under control a three-day wildfire that destroyed about 150 homes and thousands of hectares of forest and farm land near Athens earlier this week.

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