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Perth: Aerial footage shows Australian bushfire rage near city

A bushfire just outside of Perth has destroyed dozens of homes as the Western Australian city remains in Covid lockdown.

Helicopter footage showed some of its trail of the destruction.

Read more: Homes lost as bushfire threatens locked-down Perth

2 February 2021

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