Firefighters are struggling to douse a forest fire that broke out in the mountains of southwestern China at the weekend, killing at least 26 firefighters, with four missing, state media said on Monday (April 1).
Footage on CCTV showed a huge fire and plumes of smoke rising from the forest area.
The fire broke out on Saturday (March 30) in the Muli county of Sichuan province, perched at an altitude of more than 4,000 m. (13,000 ft), with poor transport and communication links.
By Sunday (March 31) afternoon, authorities had sent nearly 700 firefighters to put out the fire, but 30 went missing after a surge of flames fed by a sudden shift in the wind, the People’s Daily newspaper said.
The bodies of the dead firefighters have been retrieved, it added.
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