Tens of thousands forced to evacuate as wildfires tear through Spain and southern France

More than 60,000 residents fled their homes, including by boat, to escape two major blazes along the Atlantic coast.

Europe wildfires: ‘Difficult hours lie ahead’ in battle to contain fires, says Pedro Sánchez as more than 300,000 flee homes in France and Spain – as it happened

Fires displace people on massive scale and trigger one of the largest peacetime civilian evacuation operations ever carried out in France