Body found in fire-charred southern California

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LOS ANGELES (AFP) — The recent wildfires that devastated southern California are believed to have claimed an eighth fatality, following the discovery of a body near the US-Mexico border, it was reported Monday.

The San Diego Union Tribune reported that searchers found the body of a 37-year-old father-of-three near the border town of Tecate and believed he had died in the Harris fire, which charred 90,000 acres and left five people dead.

The dead man's brother told the newspaper that he had been amongst a group of Mexican nationals crossing the border during the fire when he had been caught in the flames.

San Diego County Medical Examiners would inspect the remains later Monday, the newspaper reported. If confirmed as a fire death, the man would be the eighth...