More than 5,000 firefighters have been tackling the wildfires that Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro said are 'raging across the country'.
At least seven people, including three firefighters, have died as wildfires continue to rage across Portugal, according to local news outlets.
The firefighters - two women and a man - died while tackling a blaze in Tábua in Coimbra, central Portugal, the country's civil protection authority Ten thousand hectares have already been burned between Porto and Aveiro in the north, the Portuguese news agency Lusa said on Monday. Local media reported that hospitals in affected areas have received people with burns, breathing difficulties and other injuries from the fires. At least 12 firefighters have been injured, two seriously, reports say.have been destroyed by the fire. Many schools in Gondomar, an area near central Porto, closed on Tuesday, its mayor said.Portugal's civil protection authority named the three firefighters who died as Sonia Cláudia Melo, Paulo Jorge Santos, and Susana Cristina Carvalho.
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