The body of the Polish man was found by firefighters battling blazes in the Maures region, an area of densely forested low-lying hills near the Mediterranean coast, but the official could not immediately specify the circumstances or place of his death.

On Monday the body of two elderly hikers from Britain were discovered in woods outside the village of La Garde Freinet.

The body of a woman was found burned in outside Sainte Maxime, near the trendy resort of Saint Tropez.

Over a dozen fires raged Monday in the Var region between the cities of Marseille and Nice, destroying more than 8,000 hectares (19,800 acres) of woodland, 7,500 hectares alone in the Maures mountains, rescue services said.

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