LATEST: 60 killed as forest fires rage across central Portugal

LATEST: Raging forest fires in central Portugal have killed at least 57 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road.

UPDATE 12.15pm: Raging forest fires in central Portugal have killed at least 57 people, many of them trapped in their cars as flames swept over a road.

Nearly 60 other people have been injured, including four firefighters, in what Prime Minister Antonio Costa described as "the biggest tragedy of human life that we have known in years".