NNA - Firefighters struggled to control wildfires raging in several parts of Spain today amid drought and winds, as a heat wave sent temperatures soaring to near record levels.

The Spanish Meteorological Agency said that the country is heading today towards recording the highest temperatures it has witnessed in early summer in decades, with temperatures expected to range between 40 and 42 degrees Celsius in Zaragoza in the northeast and in the regions of Navarra and La Rioja in the north of the country.

The regions of Samoura, near the border with Portugal, and Catalonia in the east were among the regions worst affected by the forest fires.

"There were no reports of deaths or injuries," Reuters reported.

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