Marbella blaze kills 1, injures 2
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September 1, 2012, Saturday
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ONE person died, two others suffered burns, and more than 4,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes yesterday as a wildfire fanned by strong winds devoured hillsides around the luxurious southern Mediterranean resort city of Marbella in Spain.
Regional Interior Ministry official Jose Luis Ruiz Espejo said the fire started outside the mountainside town of Coin, northeast of Marbella.
All the residents of the nearby town of Ojen were forced to evacuate as flames swept their valley. Most spent much of the night sheltered in sports centers in Marbella.
The regional government of Andalucia said in a statement that an elderly man's charred body had been found yesterday "in a tool shed" near Ojen.
Jose Antonio Grinan, president of the regional government of Andalucia said two people were being treated in hospital for burns and bruises.
Ruiz Espejo said firefighters suspected arson as the cause of the fire. Grinan said that if this suspicion was proven, it would be "a criminal act." Speaking on Cadena SER radio, Ruiz Espejo said one of the injured was in "a serious condition."
Fernando Fernandez, mayor of the popular tourist destination town of Mijas, said many residents had been evacuated, but strong east winds had "fortunately for us, swept the fire westwards, toward Marbella."
Marbella, with its leisure craft port of Puerto Banus, is one of Europe's most luxurious seaside destinations, its normally green hillsides studded with mansions and palaces belonging to aristocrats, the rich and famous.
Regional Interior Ministry official Jose Luis Ruiz Espejo said the fire started outside the mountainside town of Coin, northeast of Marbella.
All the residents of the nearby town of Ojen were forced to evacuate as flames swept their valley. Most spent much of the night sheltered in sports centers in Marbella.
The regional government of Andalucia said in a statement that an elderly man's charred body had been found yesterday "in a tool shed" near Ojen.
Jose Antonio Grinan, president of the regional government of Andalucia said two people were being treated in hospital for burns and bruises.
Ruiz Espejo said firefighters suspected arson as the cause of the fire. Grinan said that if this suspicion was proven, it would be "a criminal act." Speaking on Cadena SER radio, Ruiz Espejo said one of the injured was in "a serious condition."
Fernando Fernandez, mayor of the popular tourist destination town of Mijas, said many residents had been evacuated, but strong east winds had "fortunately for us, swept the fire westwards, toward Marbella."
Marbella, with its leisure craft port of Puerto Banus, is one of Europe's most luxurious seaside destinations, its normally green hillsides studded with mansions and palaces belonging to aristocrats, the rich and famous.
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