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Firefighters battle blaze on Mt Koula

Firefighters were battling late on Tuesday to contain a large blaze that broke out on the slopes of Mount Koula in the northern prefecture of Rhodope near the Bulgarian border.

The blaze broke out at a high and inaccessible spot on the mountain, hampering the efforts of ground forces and aircraft to extinguish it.

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