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Bogotá, Oct 2 (EFE).- About 350 people from the Embera indigenous community continued Saturday to camp in the Bogotá National Park after they were evicted earlier this week from the house where they lived in the Vista Hermosa neighborhood of Ciudad Bolívar.This group was displaced from the Chocó region and arrived in Bogotá a year ago. They received monetary aid and subsidies from the Victims Unit and the District but when these grants ended, they decided to stay at the emblematic Bogota park. (Camera: JUAN CARLOS GOMI).B-ROLL OF THE INDIGENOUS CAMP IN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA.
Indigenous people from the Nukak community and Colombian soldiers arrive in the jungle to join the Special Forces soldiers already searching for the four Indigenous children missing in the jungle after a plane crash in the Amazon. IMAGES
Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, in addition to hundreds of thousands who have been displaced inside the country, says UN refugee agency spokesperson Olga Sarrado. 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
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More than 1,000 people evacuated from an area threatened by a violent forest fire wake up in a gymnasium in Bormes-les-Mimosas, in the Var department of France. The facility had already welcomed "fire survivors" during the 2017 fires. The prefecture specifies that among the "thousands" of evacuees are holidaymakers from six campsites in the region. IMAGES