Devastating wildfires send 267,000 fleeing in France and Spain

Wildfires tearing across France and Spain have forced more than two hundred sixty-seven thousand people to flee, according to Channel NewsAsia. France alone moved about one hundred ninety-seven thousand people out of areas around Bordeaux, including vacation spots packed at this time of year, in what the country's interior minister called probably its largest peacetime evacuation.

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