KUNMING - Local authorities in southwest China's Yunnan province reported on Sunday that four people have died in forest fires in two separate incidents.

Three people died when a forest fire broke out in Douge village in Lincang city at about 6:10 pm on Saturday. The blaze engulfed an area of approximately 5.33 hectares, said the local publicity department.

Another person was killed in a forest fire that broke out in Wenshan city on Friday, according to the municipal publicity department.

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Both fires have been extinguished.