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Thirteen people are killed and twenty-three others are reported missing in a wildfire in Los Gallardos, Spain.
This combines a later death toll with an outdated missing-person figure: by July 12, reports said 13 had died but the official number missing had fallen well below 23.
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The sentence appears to mix two different updates from the Los Gallardos wildfire.
Early reports on July 10, 2026 described roughly 12 deaths and 23 missing. But later reporting on July 12, 2026 updated the situation: the death toll had risen to 13, while the number of officially missing people had been revised down, not left at 23.
For example, Agencia EFE reported on July 12 that the fire had caused 13 deaths and that, after the search operation concluded, the official toll stood at "trece víctimas mortales, ocho desaparecidos oficiales" (13 dead, 8 officially missing). A Reuters report from July 12 likewise said the death toll was 13 and the number missing was 10.
So while 13 deaths was current, 23 missing was not. The Wikipedia blurb appears to have kept an older missing-person figure after newer casualty updates had already reduced it.
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- Estabilizado el incendio en Los Gallardos - EFE
Según han confirmado a EFE fuentes de la Comandancia de la Guardia Civil de Almería, el cierre de estas batidas consolida el balance humano del siniestro en esas trece víctimas mortales, ocho desaparecidos oficiales y ocho heridos...
- Spanish wildfires claim 13th victim as British woman, 93, dies of injuries - Reuters (syndicated)
A British woman has died of injuries sustained in wildfires that swept through Spain’s southeastern Almeria province... bringing the total number killed to 13... Spain’s forensic services data unit, the CID, said on Sunday night that... the total [missing was] 10.