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Cape Town firefighter killed, another hurt in rig crash

They were driving back to the station after responding to a fire; the injured firefighter sustained minor injuries

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Firefighter Nazeem Davies

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A young firefighter from the West Coast District Municipality died on Thursday when the fire truck he was driving left the road and plunged down the side of the Dasklip Pass.

Nazeem Davies, 25, from Worcester, was on his way back to the Vredenburg station from the Winterhoek Mountains, near Porterville, where he and his colleagues had helped put out a fire.

West Coast District Municipality spokesman Kallie Willemse said Davies and a colleague, Niklaas Nel, were on their way back to Vredenburg when their fire truck left the road and plunged down the side of the pass.

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