ULAN BATOR: A total of 97 forest and steppe fires have been recorded across Mongolia since the beginning of this year, destroying 1,051,907 hectares of forest and grassland, the country's National Emergency Management Agency said Sunday.

The number of registered wildfires is up around 73 percent compared with the same period last year, the emergency agency said in a statement.

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