Lisbon/Madrid: At least 36 people have died in wildfires raging through parched farmlands and forests in Portugal and another three in neighbouring north-western Spain.
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| Residents walk past a burnt bus as a wildfire moves forward in Chandebrito in the north-western Spanish region of Galicia. |
Firefighters were battling 50 blazes in Portugal and a similar number in Spain on Monday, local time.
Portugal's government has asked for international help and declared a state of emergency in territory north of the Tagus river - about half its landmass.
Flames ripped across Iberian countryside left tinder-dry by an unusually hot summer and early autumn, fanned by strong winds as remnants of ex-Hurricane Ophelia brushed coastal areas.
Read the story by Andrei Khalip and Raquel Castillo in today’s Melbourne Age - "Wildfires sweep Portugal, northern Spain, killing dozens.”
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