King Felipe has cut short his family holiday to Greece amid the major wildfire situation in Spain.

Sky News reports that another 500 soldiers have been deployed, taking the total to 1,900, to tackle up to 20 major wildfires, with the majority in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia.

After landing at Torrejón Air Base, northeast of Madrid, on Sunday, King Felipe, 57, travelled straight to the Headquarters of the Military Emergency Unit (UME), where he was greeted by the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, and the Lieutenant General in charge of the UME, Francisco Javier Marcos.

At the headquarters, he received the latest information on the deployment of UME troops in forest firefighting tasks.

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