Chile wildfire: Firefighters wrestled with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile two days earlier, as officials extended curfews in cities most heavily affected by the blazes and said at least 112 people had been killed.
Wildfires blazing in central Chile have now killed at least 112 people and the toll will keep rising, President Gabriel Boric said Sunday as the disaster left bodies in the streets and homes gutted.
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The fires broke out during a week of record high temperatures in central Chile. Over the past two months, the El Niño weather pattern has caused droughts and high temperatures in western South America that have also increased the risk of forest fires.
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A man holds belongings after losing his house to a wildfire in Villa Independencia, Valparaiso region. The governor of the Valparaiso region said he believed some of the fires could have been intentionally caused.
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Nearly 64,000 acres had been burned across the central and southern regions of Chile by Sunday. Authorities have imposed a curfew, while thousands in the affected areas were ordered to evacuate their homes.
The El Niño weather pattern has caused droughts and hotter-than-usual temperatures along the west of South America this year, increasing the risk of forest fires. In January, more than 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of forests were destroyed in Colombia by fires that followed several weeks of dry weather.
