CAPE TOWN: A hearth broke out at Cape City Worldwide Airport Tuesday (Feb 24), prompting passenger evacuations and disrupting worldwide flights to and from South Africa’s fashionable vacationer metropolis earlier than being introduced below management.
Photos shared on-line confirmed travellers evacuating South Africa’s second-busiest airport with suitcases as smoke stuffed the terminal and sirens rang to alert passengers of an emergency evacuation.
“Cape City Worldwide Airport confirms {that a} fireplace occurred,” Airports Firm South Africa (ACSA) mentioned in an announcement, including that the blaze had been “extinguished” with no accidents.
“As a precautionary measure, worldwide departures have been briefly suspended, and incoming worldwide flights are being diverted,” the assertion mentioned, as the fireplace had affected “community and IT providers”.
