Europe is battling with devastating wildfires as scorching temperatures continue to rise, with France recording a sharp increase in heat-related deaths and Spain enduring one of its deadliest blazes in decades.
At least four Brits are among 12 people killed after a wildfire swept through a remote expat community in southern Spain on Thursday night, with victims dying as they tried to escape the flames in cars and on foot.
A further eight people were injured and 23 remain missing after the blaze broke out late on Thursday in Bedar, near Almeria, on the south-eastern coast of Spain.
Some six Brits are among those unaccounted
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