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A infografia refere os factos sobre os incêndios e as regiões em que foi decretado o estado de emergência.
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Rússia to investiga incêndios na Sibéria

By Jordi Bou

August 2, 2019 - As forças armadas russas estão a apoiar os bombeiros nos incêndios que alastram na Sibéria. A polícia investiga se os incêndios foram ateados deliberadamente para esconder atividade madeireira ilegal.

The wildfires cover 3.1 million hectares of mostly remote, uninhabited forest, the Federal Forestry Agency has said. This is an area as big as Belgium.

A state of emergency was earlier declared in the Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk regions, two areas of the Republic of Buryatia and one area of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

The Defence Ministry said 10 army transport planes and 10 helicopters had arrived in Krasnoyarsk, a day after President Vladimir Putin ordered the army to help firefighters battle the fires.

Greenpeace says the fires are an “ecological catastrophe”, and many
Russians are calling for authorities to take tougher action

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PUBLISHED: 02/08/2019; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Associated Press
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