Spain battles to contain one of its deadliest wildfires as at least 12 killed
Soaring temperatures, incredibly dry ground and powerful winds led to the Los Gallardos fire spreading quickly on Thursday afternoon. The cause of the fire has
Soaring temperatures, incredibly dry ground and powerful winds led to the Los Gallardos fire spreading quickly on Thursday afternoon. The cause of the fire has been put down to a fallen power line, but local electricity companies have denied this was the cause. No additional information has been given about the four people who were found dead in a burnt-out car.
Antonio Sanz, Andalusia's health and emergencies minister, said earlier they were believed to be "of British origin" and that the car had a steering wheel on the right. Lucinda Curtois, who arrived in Spain with her partner Riyaz Cheytan and their teenage children for a holiday on Thursday, described their escape from Bedar.
"It was almost like there was a mushroom cloud of smoke, it was like a bomb had gone off," she said. Curtois told the BBC she feared at least two other UK nationals had been killed. "They left their home on foot, I don't know why," she said.
"I can only presume it was probably because their road was cut off because they live out in the countryside."
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