People have been evacuated from Cape Town neighbourhoods as a huge wildfire sweeping across the slopes of the city’s famed Table Mountain was fanned by high winds and threatened homes.
City authorities said the fire, which started early on Sunday, was still not under control and residents of suburbs on the mountain slopes were now being evacuated as a “precautionary” measure.
The blaze had already damaged the library and other buildings on the campus of the University of Cape Town and other historic buildings on Sunday, and was spreading through the wild bush on the mountain slopes towards the city’s centre and the surrounding residential areas.
Residents evacuated as raging Table Mountain wildfire spreads in Cape Town
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