Wildfire death charge man 'tried to stop flames'

The man accused of starting a fire on South Africa’s Table Top mountain that killed another tourist told today how he desperately tried to stamp out the flames.

The man accused of starting a fire on South Africa’s Table Top mountain that killed another tourist told today how he desperately tried to stamp out the flames.

Briton Anthony Cooper ,37, a salesman from Brighton, told a court he had noticed a “tiny” fire in grassland near his parked car after a spark flew from a match he used to light a cigarette.

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