Sicily tourist resort evacuated as wildfires spread in Italy
Other wildfires are being tackled on Mt Vesuvius and elsewhere.
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Hundreds of tourists at a beach resort in Sicily have been evacuated by boat due to wildfires that are blazing across a huge area of southern Italy, according to reports.
Additional military troops were being called in to help control the blazes, which civil protection officials and prosecutors said were likely to have been set intentionally.
The ANSA news agency quoted tourists at the Calampiso resort in San Vito Lo Capo, near Trapani, as saying they were being housed in a school because they cannot return to their rooms.
Other wildfires were encroaching on the Amalfi coast, on Mt Vesuvius and elsewhere.
