South Korean authorities have contained the main blazes in the country's largest forest fire on record, a minister said on Friday, as rain and better weather allowed more helicopters to fly and dump water,

Wildfires in South Korea fueled by high winds and dry weather have killed at least two dozen people and forced almost 30,000 to evacuate.

Police believe the fire may have been triggered on 22 March by a 56-year-old man tending to his grandparents’ gravesites. Local media reports say the man had been trying to burn overhanging tree branc