At least 12 people died and another 23 were missing on Friday after a wildfire tore through dry scrubland in southern Spain, making the blaze one of the deadliest on record in the country as Europe br...

A British man whose wife and 12 friends and neighbours are feared to have been killed in the Spanish wildfires has told how he became separated from them as the flames raced towards his home.

The couple were discovered by Civil Guard officers searching for survivors near the worst-hit village of Bedar in the early hours of Friday morning.