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Three Men Have Been Arrested in Southern France, Suspected of Endangering Lives
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- Two of them are charged with lighting fireworks while the country's largest forest fire is ravaging the area.
- The men were arrested in the Gironde region on Saturday, according to the French prosecutor's office, according to the news agency.
- The fire that has hit the Gironde in southwest France has now burned over 1,000 square kilometers and is one of the country's biggest natural disasters since the Second World War, according to the authorities.
- Over 220,000 people have been evacuated, and the fire is now only 3 miles from Bordeaux, France's sixth largest city with 1.2 million inhabitants.
Three men have been arrested in southern France, suspected of endangering lives. Two of them are charged with lighting fireworks while the country's largest forest fire is ravaging the area. The men were arrested in the Gironde region on Saturday, according to the French prosecutor's office, according to the news agency.
The fire that has hit the Gironde in southwest France has now burned over 1,000 square kilometers and is one of the country's biggest natural disasters since the Second World War, according to the authorities. Over 220,000 people have been evacuated, and the fire is now only 3 miles from Bordeaux, France's sixth largest city with 1.2 million inhabitants. A further 55,000 people were ordered to leave villages around Bordeaux on the night of Sunday after the flames spread. 30,000 have been evacuated from the neighboring county of Landes further south, where another forest fire is raging.
Source: NRK