British man dies on phone to wife as Spain wildfire kills 12

At least 12 people confirmed dead with 23 missing; a British couple found with burns covering 40% of their bodies; thousands evacuated as homes were destroyed.

In the sun-scorched hills of Andalusia, a fire born from a broken power line became one of Spain's deadliest in living memory, consuming 7,000 hectares in hours and claiming at least twelve lives — among them a British man who spent his final moments on the phone with his wife, the cats beside him, the flames closing in. The disaster near Los Gallardos has laid bare the ancient tension between nature's indifference and humanity's fragile systems of warning and escape. Twenty-three people remain missing, and the questions now rising alongside the grief concern not only what the fire took, but w

British man dies on phone to wife as Spain wildfire kills 12

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