Islands emergency

Wednesday 20 April 1994 23:02 BST
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Officials declared a state of emergency on Isabela, the largest of the Galapagos islands where wildfires have raged out of control for a week, AFP reports from Quito, Ecuador. More than a dozen types of Galapagos tortoises live on the various islands in the archipelago. So far, they have not been harmed.

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