South Africa: Children Linked to Two Wildfires

Youths smoking a hookah pipe at Jonkershoek and children chasing ants out of a log in their hideout in Welcome Glen Valley above Glencairn have been linked to two wildfires that swept across large tracts of veld earlier this year.

A probe by forensic scientist David Klatzow has found that while some fires were started accidentally, arson could not be ruled out in others.

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