The Itosh National Park in Namibia, a habitat of the endangered black rhinoceros, was immersed in huge fire

Namibia has sent more than 500 soldiers to help fight a large massive fire that burned 30 percent of the country’s most well -known national park.

The office of President Netubo Nandi -NdaitWah said on Sunday that an unknown number of wildlife was killed in the fire, which started last Monday and spread across the ITOSA National Park in Northern Namibia.

The garden is home to hundreds of wildlife, including endangered black rhinoceros. The president’s office said that the fire also spread in villages on the outskirts of the park, but no human victims were reported.

He said that the cause of the fire was not certain.

Video on the national broadcaster NBC Black trees and grass, and antelopes, showed the fire.

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The authorities sent helicopters and trucks with water tanks to fight fires. They deployed 500 soldiers on Sunday to help the operation and join the first group of 40 soldiers sent to the park on Saturday, according to the President’s Office.

The statement said that approximately 30 percent of the grazing lands in a 2200 square kilometer garden were destroyed.

Etosha National Park is one of the largest in Africa and is famous for its salt stick that turns into a lake during the rainy season and attracts wildlife.

The Ministry of Environment in Namibia said in a separate statement that the environmental damage of the park was wide and that the fire had burned approximately 7,700 square kilometers of vegetation. The ministry said it suspected that the fire may have started by the coal production company on a farm on the border with the park.

Namibia is a hot and arid country in South Africa, and the fire came in the midst of the most dry times of the year in Itoza.