Tourists evacuated from Pescara as Italy records more than 800 wildfires

Wildfires burn across Italy, Spain, Greece and Turkey in heatwave bringing temperatures above 40C

Smoke billows from the Dannunziana nature reserve as people watch from the beach at Pescara on Sunday. Photograph: Lorenzo Dolce/EPA

At least five people have been wounded and holidaymakers evacuated after wildfires devastated a pine wood near a beach in Pescara, Italy, as one of the worst heatwaves in decades swept across south-east Europe.

A five-year-old girl was taken to hospital but her condition is not believed to be life-threatening, according to reports.