Firefighters battle flames near Spanish lynx wildlife reserve


  • World
  • Monday, 26 Jun 2017

A man rides on a tractor while helping to put out a forest fire near Donana National Park in Mazagon, southern Spain June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Jon Nazca

MADRID (Reuters) - Firefighters battled on Monday to control a forest fire near the Donana wildlife reserve in southern Spain that forced the evacuation of 2,000 people and the removal of endangered Iberian lynx from a breeding centre on Sunday.

Around 450 people were still waiting to return to their homes on Monday while more than 400 firefighters and soldiers worked to extinguish the flames using dozens of vehicles and 14 aircraft, officials said.

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