Traces of criminals in the fires of Brazil
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency According to Reuters, government officials in Brazil announced that criminals may be behind unprecedented fires in the state of Sao Paulo
Volney Wolf, head of Brazil’s National Office of Protection and Civil Defense, announced on Wednesday that 99.9% of the fires in the state were caused by human actions. .
He said that there was no lightning or cutting of high voltage cables in the areas involved in the fire, which was the cause of this huge fire.
According to this Brazilian official, four people have been arrested in this connection.
Marina Silva, Minister of the Environment of Brazil, also called the forest fires in Sao Paulo state unusual.
According to the Brazilian authorities, these fires occurred simultaneously in different areas of Sao Paulo state, which proves that these areas were deliberately set on fire.
Two people died in these fires and more than 20 thousand hectares of land have been destroyed.