A woman seriously burned in the fire that hit Andalusia on July 9 died from her injuries, the hospital where she was treated announced Thursday, bringing the death toll to 14, mostly foreigners.
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This fire, which broke out in the region of Almeria, located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and very popular with foreign tourists, is the deadliest in two decades.
This woman, whose nationality was not specified, died at the Virgen del Rocío hospital in Seville, to which she had been admitted following serious injuries, a spokesperson for this establishment told AFP, without giving further details.
According to Spanish media, she was in intensive care after suffering 70% burns.
The fire started from a power cable along a national highway in the Los Gallardos area, where vegetation was withered due to the heat, according to authorities.
The blaze then spread at a crazy speed and was difficult to predict according to the authorities, at a rate of around 100 meters per minute, and trapped some people in their vehicles.
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The majority of victims were British and Belgian.
Other fires have ravaged Spain in recent days, reducing tens of thousands of hectares west of Madrid to ashes. And separate fires near Valencia in eastern Spain left one person dead this week.
A country on the front line of global warming, Spain has experienced increasingly long heat waves in recent years, starting in spring and then in summer, with temperatures sometimes exceeding 40°C, creating the conditions for devastating fires.
