More than 100 wildfires are stretching thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal

Three Portuguese firefighters died on Tuesday in one of dozens of forest blazes ravaging the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the latest wildfires to seven people since Saturday,

More than 5,000 firefighters have been tackling wildfires that Portugal's Prime Minister has said are "raging across the country". Louis Montenegro named one firefighter who had died of "a sudden illness" while battling a blaze in Oliveira de Azeméis as João Silva.