Live. Fires: At least "70 houses damaged" in Marseille and more than a hundred injured
The south of France is affected by several major fires. In Marseille, a fire broke out Tuesday afternoon after a car caught fire on the motorway. The flames have entered the Phocaean city. Firefighters are also battling blazes in the Aude department, near Narbonne, and in the Hérault department, between Agde and Sète.
Several major fires have hit the south of France in recent days, particularly in Marseille, where hundreds of hectares of vegetation have burned in the immediate vicinity of the Phocaean city.
Near Narbonne, in the Aude department, more than a thousand firefighters from across France continued to battle a fire that has swept through 2,000 hectares of forest since Monday. On Tuesday, another fire broke out in the Hérault department, around the towns of Castelnau-de-Guers and Montagnac.
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