Rund Abdelfatah
By Mason Jones
A FATHER and his daughter have died after jumping into the sea to escape raging fires in Cataluna.
The 60-year-old French man died landing on rocks, while his daughter, 15, drowned.
The pair had jumped 165ft from a cliff with three other family members as the blaze spread, near Portbou, on the Costa Brava.
A group of about 150 tourists were forced out of their vehicles by flames and down a hillside.
The mother of the French family is in a critical condition but the son and other daughter are not thought to have suffered serious injury.
The fire, which has now claimed four lives, has burned across 35 square miles.
My condolences to the family. Each summer is becoming more and more dangerous.