President Gabriel Boric cuts short vacation as heatwave fuels nearly 40 blazes across southern and central regions
Photograph: Juan González/ReutersPhotograph: Juan González/ReutersFirst published on Fri 3 Feb 2023 19.24 GMT’s government has declared a widened state of emergency amid wildfires that have killed at least 13 people and consumed about 14,000 hectares , as the South American country endures a summer heatwave across southern and central swaths of the country.
Eleven people, including a firefighter, had died in the Biobío town of Santa Juana, local authorities said. Earlier, four people were reported to have died and hundreds were evacuated on Friday when the flames reached the town of Santa Ana.Toha said two of the dead were killed when the fires engulfed the road they were travelling on, while the other two died in a car accident, presumably while trying to escape the inferno.
The fires are raging between the central capital city, Santiago, and the country’s southwith the worst seen in Ñuble and Biobío as well as the Araucanía region.Photograph: Javier Torres/AFP/Getty Images
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