FILE: Twelve face trial over deadly 2017 Portugal fires Twelve people including three commanders of Portugal's civil protection agency will stand trial over the country's worst ever wildfires which claimed 64 lives in June 2017, prosecutors say. The accused, who face charges of negligent homicide, also include three local officials and three employees of a company in charge of the maintenance of a road where some 50 people died the blaze in the central Leiria region, the local prosecutor's office says. FILE IMAGES of the June 2017 fire in Portugal