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Spain and France wildfires live: 200,000 flee as flames scorch tourist areas
Around 141,000 have been evacuated from their homes in the Gironde and Landes departments in south-west France as a large wildfire ravaged swathes of land, the French interior ministry said.
Speaking to French TV channel Tf1, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has swept across 140 square kilometres, with 110,000 people fleeing their homes in the Gironde region, and is now heading towards the city of Bordeaux.
“We learned in the middle of the afternoon that, following the wind shift, it had become a large, self-sustaining fire that is extremely difficult to bring under control,” he said.
“It is now moving east, toward the Bordeaux metropolitan area. We are going to reorganise our response so we can fight it from the ground and prevent it from advancing toward Bordeaux.”
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