Rainfall helps firefighters control inferno in southern Spain

A seaplane flies over a wildfire in southern Spain (Pedro Armestre/AP)

Rain has helped to bring under control a major wildfire that ravaged 7,800 hectares of land in southern Spain despite more than five days of intense firefighting work by land and air.

Juan Manuel Moreno, the president of the Andalusia region, said in a tweet that “the rain that has been falling for some hours has been the best ally of the intense and admirable work of the crews”.