The death toll in the wildfires that broke out over the weekend has reached 41 in Portugal and another four in northern Spain.
Portugal’s civil protection agency said yesterday that the 15 biggest fires, which had raged through the centre and the north of the country, had been brought under control.
As the country began three days of mourning for the victims, the agency said 41 people had been killed and 71 injured in the fires, 16 of them seriously. And one person was still missing.
Across the border in Galicia, Spain’s westernmost province, the number of dead rose to four from fires which also broke out on Sunday. Officials yesterday said they had lowered the alert level after early-morning rain and calmer winds halted the progression of the flames.
Source: AIR