Ilayda Cakirtekin<\/p>\n
10 July 2026\u2022Update: 10 July 2026<\/p>\n
At least 11 people were killed in a forest fire that broke out Thursday in Los Gallardos municipality in Almeria province in Spain\u2019s southern Andalusia region, broadcaster RTVE reported.<\/p>\n
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According to Andalusia\u2019s emergency services, the victims were found in a hamlet of the neighboring municipality of Bedar, with some discovered inside vehicles engulfed by the flames.<\/p>\n
Antonio Sanz, Andalusia\u2019s acting minister for health, the presidency, and emergencies, described the blaze as \u201cthe fire with the greatest consequences to date\u201d in the region and called it an \u201cunprecedented tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andalusian authorities have provisionally revised the death toll from 12 to 11 as victim identification efforts continue.<\/p>\n
Authorities raised the region\u2019s wildfire response plan to the emergency phase as the fire continued to spread, while Spain\u2019s Military Emergency Unit (UME) deployed 150 personnel to reinforce firefighting efforts.<\/p>\n
The fire and heavy smoke also forced the closure of two major roads in the province.<\/p>\n
Separately, around 1,000 people were evacuated as a precaution due to another forest fire that broke out Thursday afternoon in the southern province of Malaga. The fire remains active, with nearly 180 personnel continuing efforts to stabilize the blaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ilayda Cakirtekin 10 July 2026\u2022Update: 10 July 2026 At least 11 people were killed in a forest fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,180755,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-sitekeywords","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}