Two more Brit women killed in devastating Spain wildfires as UK death toll climbs to seven after families share DNA

TWO more British women are confirmed to have died in wildfires which burned across Almeria, Spain – as the UK death toll climbs to seven. They are among 13 people – of which 12 were foreign nationals – who have been killed by the horror blaze. Victims have been so badly burnt that forensic experts have been forced to conduct DNA testing to identify them. Andalucia’s High Court of Justice confirmed on Tuesday that the victims include eight women and five men, all adults. They are citizens of Britain, Belgium, the United States, France and Spain. It is unclear exactly when the two British women were killed but their existence was only revealed by authorities last night. READ MORE Previously confirmed casualties include Pete and Fran Gillam – a British couple who went missing on Thursday. In the last contact they had with their daughter, Danielle, they told her they were evacuating the badly-hit village of Bedar. The family never heard from them again – and the pair were confirmed to have died in the horror blaze on Sunday. In an agonising post to Facebook, the daughter wrote: “Mum and Dad did not survive the fire.” Most read in The Sun She added that the family was “heartbroken” by the news – and thanked well-wishers for their thoughts and prayers. The devastating news came just one day after a 93-year-old British pensioner died in hospital after sustaining 20 per cent burns in the wildfires. The fires have been the deadliest the region has ever seen. Starting on July 9 in Los Gallardos, the flames spread rapidly to the village of Bedar. At times the fire spread at speeds of nearly 60 miles a minute. The inferno has burned down 17,000 acres of land – an area just slightly smaller than the city of Leicester. Investigators believe it started when an electrical cable fell into a dry riverbed and set it ablaze. It was along this same riverbed that four Brits in a car are believed to have attempted their escape. The route turned out to be a deadly trap – and all four are believed to have perished. Their bodies were discovered in a burnt-out shell of a Honda with a right-hand steering wheel. The car was on a track which was not part of the official evacuation routes, according to Spanish authorities. Andalucia’s minister for health and emergencies Antonio Sanz said: “Unfortunately, the decision to take a different route than the evacuation route and seek their own exit through a dry riverbed was a real trap chosen by the people who ultimately died.” Survivor Bob Layton, originally from Birmingham, said he had lost friends in the tragedy. He said he was “sick to the back teeth of hearing that people didn’t follow the ‘designated escape route” and claimed there was no warning given about the inferno. Bob said: “I was there. We lost our home, all our possessions and nearly our lives. “If we’d left 60 seconds later than we did, we’d have joined those poor souls, our friends and our neighbours. There was no warning, full stop.”