UPDATED: Both of Georgians lost during Athens’ fire found

Updated: 22.50

The second Georgian citizen that was reported missing to the Embassy of Georgia in Athens, where a wildfire has killed more than 70 people, has been found.

"the embassy has reacted immediately to every report received on the hotline during the day" said the statement released by the Georgian embassy in Greece later this evening.

Updated: 14:20

The Georgian Embassy to Greece says that for now one Georgian citizen is being searched in Athens, as fire rages there. 

The Georgian Ambassador to Greece Ioseb Nanobashvili told the Georgian media that initially two Georgian citizens were being searched and one has already been found. 

The ambassador expects that the second Georgian being searched is safe as he is not in the epicenter of fire. 

Earlier: 13:11 

Two Georgian citizens in Greece cannot be reached by relatives, the Embassy of Georgia to Greece has reported. 

No Georgian citizen has been reported hospitalized due to forest fires near Athens, Ambassador to Greece Ioseb Nanobashvili said.

"Five citizens connected to the embassy’s hotline and three of them were provided assistance,” the ambassador said. 

A forest fire raging near Athens has killed about 50 people and more than 100 have been injured, global media reports. 

One Georgian citizen was rescued from the fire zone by workers of consulate, the Georgian embassy said.

"We call on Georgian citizens to continue appealing to us using the hotline +306995779793 in order for the embassy to assist them,” the embassy said in a statement. 

As the fire is moving fast and thousands of people find it hard to evacuate, the embassy is working in emergency mode to provide assistance for Georgian citizens living in Athens.