Bushfire destroys homes on Australia's west coast | AFP

A wildfire on the fringes of Australia's fourth-largest city, Perth, has destroyed several homes and forced evacuations, days after the west coast city entered a coronavirus lockdown. Firefighters were still battling the out-of-control bushfire, with aerial footage showing several properties ablaze and large blackened fields in the semi-rural area.

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