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Colombia declares public calamity as wildfire threatens popular tourist area

Colombia declares public calamity as wildfire threatens popular tourist area — photograph supplied by The Guardian World

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Wildfire forces evacuations and burns through mountains surrounding Villa de Leyva in the north-east Colombian authorities declared a public calamity as a wildfire burned through mountains surrounding one of the country’s best-known colonial towns in the north-east, scorching large swaths of…

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