Benavente, Spain, Aug 24, 2025 (AFP) - Fires ravage an ageing rural Spain

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2025-08-24

The biggest fear for senior citizens taking refuge in Benavente, a town in a zone ravaged by vast wildfires in Spain, is that "everything they own could burn", its mayor Beatriz Asensio told AFP. She was speaking as she visited a temporary shelter in her municipality, in Zamora province in the Castile and Leon region, hosting residents from surrounding areas who had been evacuated ahead of fast-moving fire fronts. Many were elderly, reflecting th......

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