Spanish PM to visit fire-ravaged Canaries
The Spanish prime minister is making an emergency visit to the Canary Islands today to assess raging wildfires that have forced the evacuation of 14,000 people.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who was about to begin his summer holiday, has scrapped plans to visit Barcelona and will instead rush to the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria, where towering flames have burned 25,000 hectares (62,000 acres) of pine forest and other land.
