Kilimanjaro: Firefighters tackle blaze on Tanzania mountain

Firefighters successful Tanzania are battling to extinguish a blaze connected Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, section officials say.

The occurrence started connected Friday nighttime on 1 of the mountain's astir fashionable climbing routes.

Giant flames and plumes of fume could beryllium seen connected the slopes, witnesses successful the country told BBC Swahili.

It is not wide however the occurrence started oregon however overmuch wood has been burned. No casualties person been reported.

The occurrence comes 2 years aft a week-long inferno destroyed thousands of hectares of woodland connected Mount Kilimanjaro's slopes.

Videos posted connected societal media connected Saturday appeared to amusement ample flames and a broad of fume engulfing parts of the wood surrounding the mountain.

The determination constabulary chief, quoted by AFP quality agency, said helium could not yet accidental however large the occurrence was.

But a level sent to the tract of the occurrence was incapable to onshore owed to the immense clouds and heavy smoke, Kilimanjaro determination caput Nurdin Babu told section reporters.

Subsequently, much than 300 radical were sent to the country to assistance get the blaze nether control, according to the Tanzania National Parks Authority (Tanapa). As good arsenic exigency workers, including firefighters and police, wildlife parkland rangers and tourism institution employees were taking portion successful the effort to bring the occurrence nether control, it said.

Mount Kilimanjaro, which is 5,895m (19,341ft) precocious is simply a fashionable tourer destination and tens of thousands of radical ascent it each year.

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