Texas wildfire: strong winds continue to thwart firefighters’ efforts to contain blaze

Largest fire in state history so far scorched 1.1m acres and killed two people, while thousands of livestock were killed or euthanized

Ferocious winds continue to thwart firefighters across a broad swathe of Texas on Sunday where the second largest wildfire in US history is only 15% contained after six days.

As of Sunday morning the Smokehouse Creek Fire has so far scorched almost 1.1m acres - 1,700 sq miles - across the Texas Panhandle in the north of the state, as well as tens of thousands of acres in Oklahoma.