Watch: Wildfires scorch France and Spain as heatwave-related deaths soar

As temperatures remain unusually high, heat-related deaths have soared.

Countries across Europe are struggling to fight wildfires

Firefighters struggled to contain wildfires raging out of control in France and Spain on Sunday as Europe wilts under an unusually extreme heatwave that authorities have linked to a rise in excess mortality.

Two huge blazes that have been consuming pine forests for six days just south of the city of Bordeaux in south-west France have forced the evacuation of some 14,000 people, including many who were set to spend their holidays at campsites.