Today in Spain: A roundup of the latest news on Tuesday

Spain helps Portugal fight mountain fire

Four Spanish planes on Monday joined more than 250 Portuguese firefighters battling a blaze in an isolated mountain region near their border, authorities said.

The blaze in north Portugal's Viana do Castelo district was spreading in two directions and was difficult to tackle because of the strong winds, civil protection chief Marco Domingues said.

One firefighter has been injured.

Authorities have put much of northern and southern Portugal on the highest alert for wildfires because of high temperatures and strong winds.

There's another fire worrying firefighters in the central Spanish province of Ávila.

The Iberian Peninsula faces annual summer wildfires, which experts say are becoming more frequent and intense around the world because of rising global temperatures.

'Cold' front to bring cooler temperatures to parts of Spain this week

In the midst of the dog days of summer, people in Spain will get to enjoy some fairly bearable temperatures, especially those in the east. In fact, in some areas, July will end with temperatures up to 6C below normal for this time of year.

Rain is forecast in Catalonia and the Balearics on Tuesday, according to national weather agency Aemet.

In southern Spain, there will also be a slight temperature drop but the mercury will still hover around the 34C to 38C mark.

Tragic traffic accident kills three children in central Spain

On Monday afternoon, five people died and another four were injured after a head-on collision between a car and a van near the central city of Cuenca.

Among the deceased were three minors, ages 8 months, 2, and 4 years, who were travelling in the van with their parents.

They have been hospitalised with serious injuries but are alive.

Investigators believe one of the drivers was dazzled by the sun while trying to overtake.

A total of 241 people lost their lives in traffic accidents during last summer in Spain.

Vox politician say she was kicked out of the party due to machismo

Rocío Monasterio, former leader of the Madrid branch of Spain's party Vox, said on Monday that she was forced to leave the far-right group last year due to male chauvinism, referring to Vox as a "cult".

"They kicked me out, but it was because of sexism. I asked why they kicked me out, if it was because I was Iván's (Espinosa de los Monteros) wife. And they told me yes," she said in a podcast called El Común de los Sentidos.

Espinosa was also one of the top figures in Vox but left the party in 2023 for was what were believed to be differences with the most conservative branch of the movement.

Vox is a traditionalist party which has consistently claimed that gender violence doesn't exist and has called for the country's Equality Ministry to be dissolved.

Most recently they proposed deporting 8 million migrants from Spain, including legal residents.