Photo: AFPBen McPartland · 6 Sep 2016, 08:55Published: 06 Sep 2016 08:55 GMT+02:00Southern France has been scorched by more wild fires with the Calanques national park affected as 1,200 hectares burned across the region. There are risks of further fires in the Gard and the Rhone delta area. The fires ignited on Monday afternoon and burned throughout the night in the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône, Aude and Tarn. In the Calanques national park the fire ignited not far from the Luminy University campus and by 10pm had burned around 350 hectares. In August wildfires sparked panic in the north of Marseille as 3,000 hectares burned and some 1,500 were affected with 30 totally destroyed.

Source: The Local September 06, 2016 06:56 UTC