Forest fires across south-central Chile that have left 24 people dead, swallowed up hundreds of houses and left thousands injured in their wake spread into new areas on Wednesday after raging overnight.
The area affected by the flames has now spread to cover 294,058 hectares , Chilean authorities said, an area four times the size of Singapore.
Some 2,180 people have been injured and 1,180 houses have been destroyed, authorities said, with most of the deaths and damages taking place across the south-central Biobio, Araucania and Ñuble regions. "The 2011 wildfire burnt down my house, all the trees, everything," Enrique Narvaez told Reuters as he watched firefighters in Quillon work to quench the blaze near his home. "I don't want to go through the same again now."
In Concepcion, capital of the Biobio region and one of Chile's largest cities, people cared for animals such as small deer injured by the fires. "There is a massive public effort going on," Interior Minister Carolina Toha said in a briefing, adding that there was a nationwide scarcity of water tanks.
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