Alberto Fernandez on Saturday visited an area devastated by forest fires

Demonstrators shouted slogans and hit the van carrying Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez

Protesters in Argentina attack bus carrying president

Dozens of people have been evacuated from the path of the advancing flames, and some 200 houses have been destroyed

The fires, which authorities suspect were started deliberately early this week, have reached several towns near the foothills of the Andes mountains, and have consumed about 1,500 hectares of forest

Protesters in Argentina attack bus carrying president

One dead, several missing in Argentina forest fires

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Protesters in Argentina attack bus carrying president

One dead, several missing in Argentina forest fires