Firefighters battle peatland blazes as haze shrouds Indonesian city

Firefighters battle peatland blazes as haze shrouds Indonesian city

Firefighters on a western Indonesian island battle large peatland fires that have covered Palembang, a city of nearly two million people, in a haze for weeks.

A prolonged dry season has caused higher risks of wildfires on the archipelago nation's major islands, stoking fears of repeat haze-belching forest fires that have also affected neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore in recent years.