Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: More than 300 people have been mobilized to tackle a blaze on the slopes of Tanzania's famous Mount Kilimanjaro, local officials said Saturday (Sunday in Manila), with police and local people helping firefighters.

The fire was burning near the camp Karanga site used by climbers ascending the mountain, at about 4,000 meters altitude on the south side of mountain.

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