More than 360,000 evacuated across France and Spain due to wildfires

France has been battling a second fire - farther south in the Landes region - which has forced the evacuation of 36,000 people, Report informs via Sky News.

It means that across France, more than 250,000 have been forced to evacuate by the wildfires.

In Spain, more than 116,000 people have been evacuated over the past week.

French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a crisis meeting this morning with ministers to discuss the wildfires that have swept across the country. Macron asked Sebastien Lecornu, the French prime minister, to activate the government's crisis response unit yesterday and instructed the armed forces to mobilise in order to provide reinforcement to the civilian emergency services.