A military transport plane deployed by the French government on Saturday to help fight wildfires carried out its first firefighting mission in the southwest of the country, AFP journalists saw.

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The A400M military aircraft, equipped with a dispensing kit that can release 20 tons of water or fire retardant, flew over a forest in Lacanau in southwestern France.

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