Firefighters in France battle to prevent huge blaze from approaching Bordeaux

Efforts to contain wildfire that has consumed an area of four times the size of Paris impeded by windy conditions

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Authorities are battling to contain a huge wildfire near Bordeaux in south-west France that has consumed an area of land four times the size of Paris.

Efforts to extinguish the blaze in the Gironde region, where nearly 220,000 people have been evacuated, were hampered by windy conditions on Saturday night.
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