At least 23 people have died in hundreds of forest fires in Chile.
Nearly a thousand people have been injured as a blistering heatwave is complicating efforts to control the blazes.
The fires are raging across the central-southern regions of Araucanía, Biobio and Nuble.
The government has extended emergency orders.
Al Jazeera's Um-e-Kulsoom Shariff reports.
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Nearly a thousand people have been injured as a blistering heatwave is complicating efforts to control the blazes.
The fires are raging across the central-southern regions of Araucanía, Biobio and Nuble.
The government has extended emergency orders.
Al Jazeera's Um-e-Kulsoom Shariff reports.
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