Spanish fire survivor fears wife and friends have died trying to walk to safety

Screengrab taken from video of part of a wildfire in Almeria, Andalucia, that has killed 11 people in southern Spain. Four British people are thought to have died in a Spanish wildfire, after four bodies were found in a burnt-out car which had its steering wheel on the right. Issue date: Friday July 10, 2026. - (PA Media)

A British pensioner who fears his wife, friends and neighbours were killed in the Spanish wildfires has told how he survived by sheltering in an abandoned car with his cat.

Malcolm Timbrell, 70, became separated from his wife Annette Kilgore, 69, and the rest of the group as flames surged through their home village of Bedar, in Almeria province, on Thursday.