Fires started by a lightning strike on Thursday have consumed 60,000 hectares of land. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ASTANA - Fourteen people have died in major forest fires in northeastern Kazakhstan, the emergency situations ministry said on Saturday, the Central Asian country’s highest such toll in years.
The ministry said that 316 people had been evacuated but the situation was under control and homes safe, despite the high temperature and the changing direction of the wind hindering the response.
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