Wildfire rages for second day in Lebanon and spreads to Syria

A man runs to extinguish a forest fire, at Qobayat village, in the northern Akkar province, Lebanon (Hussein Malla/AP)

Lebanese firefighters struggled for the second day on Thursday to contain wildfires in the country’s north that have spread across the border into Syria, civil defence officials in both countries said.

The fires killed at least one person, a 15-year-old boy, who was helping firefighting efforts in Lebanon.