TimesLive reports that thick black clouds of smoke billowed from three carriages of a passenger train that caught alight in Cape Town just after noon on Monday at the Century City railway station.  

Fire and Rescue spokesperson Theo Layne said:  “We have three carriages alight.  No injuries have been reported and the cause of the fire is undetermined at this stage.  As a result of the train fire the surrounding vegetation has now also caught alight.”  Metrorail‚ which transports up to two million passengers daily around the country‚ was unable to immediately comment on the incident.

• A short report by Petru Saal is at TimesLive

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