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Brazil's army fights Amazon fires after hundreds of new blazes ignite

Handout aerial picture released by Greenpeace showing smoke billowing from fires in the forest in the Amazon biome, Brazil, on August 23, 2019. Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil. PHOTO | VICTOR MORIYAMA | GREENPEACE | AFP

By  AFP

Porto Velho,

Brazil on Sunday deployed two Hercules C-130 aircraft to douse fires devouring parts of the Amazon rainforest, as hundreds of new blazes were ignited ahead of nationwide protests over the destruction.

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