South Africa
Old Assembly not National Assembly on fire: De Lille─── 09:13 Sun, 02 Jan 2022
Minister of Public Works Patricia de Lille is speaking to media outside of Parliament. She says it wasn't the National Assembly that caught light, as indicated by JP Smith, but the Old Assembly.
Minister of Public Works Patricia de Lille is speaking to media outside of Parliament. She says it wasn't the National Assembly that caught light, as indicated by JP Smith, but the Old Assembly.
She said that the fire is now mostly under control. "Fire Service have the situation under control. It's not the National Assembly that's on fire. What's coming up there is an extractor pulling all the smoke out of the National Assembly."
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De Lille said that they are busy looking at CCTV footage to gather information on what may have caused the fire at Parliament.
This is a developing story.
