Firefighters are struggling to gain complete control over Portugal's deadliest forest fire on record which killed 64 people at the weekend, as Prime Minister Antonio Costa questions the effectiveness of an emergency response system.
Earlier this morning, fire in Central Portugal, which killed many people in their cars as they tried to flee the blaze, was 85 per cent under control after more than 1000 firefighters toiled overnight.
About 160 other people were injured in the blaze, about 200 km northeast of the capital Lisbon, and which Prime Minister Costa said was the biggest human tragedy in Portugal in living memory.
Source: BBC
