Two people died overnight in a large wildfire burning through forestland in Greece near a seaside resort in the country's south, authorities said Monday.

Two people died overnight in a large wildfire burning through forestland in Greece, near a seaside resort in the country's south, authorities said.

Nobody else was believed to be missing. There were no immediate reports of burned homes in the affected area, some 150 kilometres southwest of Athens. Greece, like other southern European countries, is plagued by destructive wildfires every summer.