# Wildfires across Europe leave deaths and destruction

https://mins.news/en/item/23780

- CGTN, 2026-08-17 02:32 UTC
- World
- Original: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08-17/Wildfires-across-Europe-leave-deaths-and-destruction-1PFUkVCUwJq/p.html?UTM_Source=cgtn&UTM_Medium=rss&UTM_Campaign=World

> Fires killed two people on Greece’s Salamina island and a soldier in Spain’s Aragon region. Belgium faced its largest modern-day wildfire, which expanded to nearly 3,000 hectares near the German border and prompted a partial evacuation. Portugal, Croatia and France were also battling wildfires.

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