Seven Britons Among 12 Foreign Nationals Killed in Spain Wildfires

Blazes tore through Andalusia's Almería province, a region home to large expatriate communities

Twelve of the 13 people killed in wildfires that swept southern Spain last week were foreign nationals, including seven Britons, authorities said, according to The Guardian.

The fire broke out last Thursday in Almería, a southeastern province popular with foreign residents, and tore through the surrounding Andalusia region. Officials confirmed the nationalities of the dead after completing postmortem examinations.

The scale of foreign casualties underscores how deeply international communities are embedded in parts of southern Spain, where British retirees and other Europeans have settled for decades. Authorities have not detailed the individual circumstances of each death.

— Compiled from reporting by The Guardian.