More than a dozen different blazes broke out over the weekend, with the safety minister reporting thousands of hectares burned and four people killed

Deadly wildfires in South Korea worsened overnight, officials said Tuesday, as dry, windy weather hampers efforts to contain one of the country’s worst-ever fire outbreaks. More than a dozen different blazes broke out over the weekend,

Inhabitants of a Unesco-listed village were ordered to evacuate while a historic Buddhist temple was burned to the ground as South Korea scrambled to contain worsening wildfires, which are tearing across the country's southeast.