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.

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.

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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