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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andy Gregory and Jane Dalton

HISTORICAL FACTS: More than 40 people killed as wildfires rage in nine mediterranean countries in record heatwave - Caught on Camera

AP

More than 40 people have died in wildfires that have engulfed swaths of land in nine Mediterranean countries, destroying homes, livelihoods and forests.

Thousands of firefighters worked to contain the blazes as searing temperatures scorched parts of Greece, Italy, Spain, Gran Canaria, Portugal, Turkey, Croatia and France, as well as Algeria and Tunisia.

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