The Los Gallardos forest fire (Almería) continues out of control. The winds of the last few hours, of up to 50 kilometers per hour, complicate the extinction tasks, although a wind from the East is expected this Saturday that could favor its evolution. The balance of victims remains at 12 dead, eight injured and 23 missing, as confirmed by the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juan Manuel Moreno, who has decreed three days of official mourning in the community. The Institute of Legal Medicine of Almería has already completed the autopsies on the 12 deceased, although at the moment it has not been possible to identify any of them, as reported by the Integrated Data Center (CID). The four seriously injured have been transferred by helicopter to the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville, while the formalized reports of disappearance have now reached seven. The fire, declared on Thursday, already affects 5,000 hectares and has forced the evacuation of 1,400 people. The first investigations point to the fall of an electrical cable as the origin of the fire.
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