Fire fighters battling remnants of Portugal's devastating forest fires

Source: Xinhua| 2017-06-20 15:10:14|Editor: ying

PORTUGAL-PEDROGAO GRANDE-FIRE-FIREMEN

Firefighters rest at a fire Department in Pedrogao Grande, some 150 km northeast of Lisbon, Portugal, on June 19, 2017. By Monday, 64 people including a young fire fighter were killed and 135 others were injured in the fires which erupted in Pedrogao Granda on Saturday and quickly spread into neighboring towns, making it the biggest tragedy in Portugal in more than four decades, as President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stated. (Xinhua/Zhang Liyun)

KEY WORDS: forest fires
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