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Added on the 02/02/2024 11:48:30 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Firefighters and police use hoses and rakes in an attempt to put out a fire in Nemocon, 60 kilometers north of Colombia's capital Bogota. The South American country has appealed for international aid as it continues to battle dozens of forest fires burning vast swathes of land and encroaching on homes in the capital. IMAGES
Firefighters battle flames at a warehouse containing plastics in the Indian capital. IMAGES
People gather at the scene after six people were killed in Israeli strikes on an annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. IMAGES
Images of smoke rising along a road and fire trucks heading towards the site of a suspected gas explosion in northern China's Hebei province. The blast at a restaurant killed one person and injured more than a dozen, according to state media. IMAGES
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES