A fire erupts at South Africa's Parliament building in Cape Town, causing some ceilings of the building to collapse, the country's Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure says.
and caused some ceilings of the building that houses the national legislature to collapse.
City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Service spokesman Jermaine Carelse said no injuries were reported. Parliament was closed for the holidays.Security guards first reported the fire at around 6 a.m., Carelse said, and 35 firefighters were on the scene. Some of them were lifted into the Cape Town skyline on a crane to spray water on the blaze from above.Cyril Ramaphosa
"Until such a time that a report has been furnished that there was arson, we have to be careful not to make suggestions that there was an attack," she said.funeral service of Archbishop Desmond Tutu The fire initially was concentrated at the old Parliament building, which is located behind the National Assembly, De Lille told reporters in front of the Parliament complex gates. During that briefing, she said firefighters"have the situation under control," but the fire spread soon after and tore through the current Parliament building.
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