Hundreds still missing following wildfires in Chile

Navy personnel walk past overturned and charred cars as they deploy to help those affected by forest fires in Chile (Esteban Felix/AP)
Navy personnel walk past overturned and charred cars as they deploy to help those affected by forest fires in Chile (Esteban Felix/AP)

More than 300 people are still missing as wildfires that ravaged central Chile for several days and killed 131 people appear to be burning themselves out.

Authorities were assessing the damage after the fires in Valparaiso, said to be Chile’s deadliest disaster since an earthquake in 2010.

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