The on-going 20th UNWTO conference being hosted by Zimbabwe and Zambia in Victoria Falls almost took a tragic turn when a fire broke out at a road construction site in Aerodrome suburb during a bitumen burning process.

Road construction workers were burning bitumen to pave roads around the town as part of the last minute preparations for the conference when the fire ignited from the drums of the heated bitumen.

No-one was injured and no property was reported to have been damaged as the Fire department quickly responded to douse the flames.

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