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The death toll from floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar dramatically, with 10,000 people reported missing, the Red Cross warns. "The death toll is huge, it might reach thousands," says Tamer Ramadan of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told reporters in Geneva via video link from Tunis. SOUNDBITE
More than 1,000 people have been evacuated in the Spanish regions of Valencia (south-east) and Aragon (north-east) where forest fires have already burnt some 900 hectares, according to local authorities. Four hundred firefighters, rescue workers and military personnel, fifteen planes, seaplanes and helicopters worked to extinguish the flames, according to the Valencia rescue service. A nearby field hospital was set up and the Red Cross opened a reception centre for evacuees in a gymnasium in the town of Segorbe. Spain was hit last summer by some 500 fires that burned over 300,000 hectares of land, making it the most affected European country, according to the European Forest Fire Information System. IMAGES
The two gigantic fires that have been raging since 12 July in Gironde (south-west France) have burnt more than 19,000 hectares of forest and forced the evacuation of 34,000 people, according to the sub-prefect of Arcachon, Ronan Léaustic. SOUNDBITE
More than 10,000 people are gathered in a temporary cathedral set up at the exhibition centre in Chassieu, near Lyon, for the beatification of Pauline Jaricot a Christian French laywoman and missionary in the 19th century. IMAGES
Malaga (Spain), Oct 8 (EFE) (Camera: Daniel Pérez) .- The vegetation affected by the Sierra Bermeja forest fire, which is still active this Friday a month after it started and which affected some 10,000 hectares, awaits its self-regeneration before being able to carry out the reforestation plan.FOOTAGE OF THE AREA AFFECTED BY THE FIRES IN MALAGA, SPAIN
Kabul, Aug 20 (EFE / EPA).- Some 10,000 people are trying to leave Afghanistan after the Taliban seize power and are crowding into the Kabul airport, according to the Italian NGO Emergency, whose center for War victims in the Afghan capital continue to receive gunshot wounds.FOOTAGE OF KABUL AIRPORT, AFGHANISTAN.
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