More than 120 wildfires raged in Spain's northern Asturias region on Friday (March 31), emergency services said, Reuters reports.
Most of them could have been started on purpose by arsonists and others, authorities said on Thursday (March 30).
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday during his state visit to China that if this intention is confirmed, authors “will not go unpunished.”
The blazes came on top of another wildfire still burning nine days after it started in woodlands in the eastern Valencia region and yet another that has swept through 1,100 hectares of land in Galicia in the northwest.
“We are very sad and frightened and want to cry all the time,” said a youngster in Asturias. overnight.
Spanish Guardia Civil said on Friday they evacuated 300 people overnight in the northern region.
Most of northern Asturias, neighbouring Cantabria and big areas of the Spanish Mediterranean coast were on high alert for the risk of wildfires on Friday, Spanish weather agency said, with temperatures soaring to record highs.
