Raging wildfires kill four in Indonesia as country battles worst blazes for a decade

• Four people have been killed and two severely injured after becoming trapped by wildfires in East Java, Indonesia .
• Indonesia is experiencing its worst forest and land fires in over a decade, with satellite-detected hotspots rising to 799 and nearly 900,000 hectares burned.
• Protests have erupted in Central Kalimantan demanding that the government declare a national disaster and deploy water-bombing helicopters.
• The resulting toxic smog has led to a sharp increase in health issues, with respiratory illness cases across seven provinces more than doubling to over 280,000.
• President Prabowo Subianto has agreed to accept foreign assistance from neighbouring countries, including Malaysia and Singapore , to help tackle the crisis.

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Four killed as wildfire traps firefighters in Indonesian national park