‘Real threat to city’: Yellowknife in Canada evacuates as wildfire nears

Residents ordered to leave capital of Northwest Territories after forecast that wildfire 11 miles away could arrive by the weekend

An evacuation order has been issued for Yellowknife in the north-west of Canada as a wildfire comes closer, with a local minister saying: The fire now represents a real threat to the city."

Shane Thompson, the environment and climate change minister for the Northwest Territories, said on Wednesday night that the fire could reach the outskirts of Yellowknife by the weekend and was about 17km (11 miles) away.