“The biggest tragedy since 2010”: at least 112 dead in fires in Chile. Nearly 26,000 hectares were reduced to ashes.
Entire residential areas devastated, charred cars. After Bogota and Colombia in the grip of flames, Bogota calls for international help. This heatwave resulting from the El Niño phenomenon is currently affecting the southern hemisphere, affecting Chile and Argentina in the coming days, Paraguay in coming days and Argentina and Brazil in coming weeks. The temperature has been close to 40 degrees in central and southern Chile since Wednesday.