Apr
2
Fire ruins parkland in Spain
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A forest fire raging in a national park in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region has consumed more than 500 hectares of protected land, authorities said Sunday.
In the neighbouring region of Asturias, 28 separate blazes were still burning, officials said.
“The fire in the region of Capela [in Galicia], which has already affected, according to the latest estimates, an area of 500 hectares, is still active,” the regional government said in a statement on Sunday.
The fire, which began Saturday afternoon, quickly spread to the Fragas do Eume national park and forced 200 people to flee.
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