Thousands of hectares of wooded hill land have been consumed by wildfires across Spain that forced the evacuation of more than 1,700 people. Most of Spain was at high risk of forest fire as the country endured a sixth day of an unusually early heatwave.
The current heatwave in Europe started almost a week ago in Spain, where temperatures reached up to 43C.
Almost 20,000 hectares of land had been burned in the Sierra de la Culebra mountain range and the fire was"still active", a tweet from the regional government of Castile and Leon said.
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