Thousands of people have been evacuated on Spain's Costa Del Sol as wildfires fanned by strong winds threaten the wealthy Mediterranean resort city of Marbella.
At least one person died, two sustained burns and more than 4,000 others were forced to flee their homes as they wildfire strengthened.
Authorities said the latest fire started outside the mountainside town of Coin, northeast of Marbella, and that arson was suspected.
A dry winter followed by a scorching hot summer has left much of southern Spain tinder dry and vulnerable to fires.
Around 580 square miles of land in Spain has burned in nearly 12,000 wildfires so far this year.
Thousands of people have been evacuated along the Costa del Sol Other European nations, including Greece, Portugal and Bosnia, have faced similar blazes.
Hundreds of Britons are among those forced out of their homes, including 300 who have been relocated to evacuation centres in the La Cala de Mijas and Calahonda areas, a Foreign Office spokesman confirmed.
The charred body of an elderly man was found near a house where he had apparently returned after being evacuated, according to the Andalusia government.
Local police found the body while searching through the burnt embers of a house, the statement said.
Two 58-year-old people were in critical condition with burns covering more than 60% of their bodies, it added.
Marbella - with its leisure craft port of Puerto Banus - is one of Europe's most luxurious seaside destinations.
Millions of tourists visit the southern coast every year and hundreds of thousands of expatriates live in the coastal belt stretching from Marbella east to the port city of Malaga.
