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The City of Ekhuruleni on Friday said when firefighters arrived at the scene on Thursday night the home was engulfed in flames and neighbours were trying to extinguish the blaze with buckets of water.
The charred bodies of 15 month-old twins were identified after they died in a shack fire in Windmill Park, Boksburg.
A Missionvale man died after his home caught fire at the weekend.
A three-year-old boy’s body was found amid the burnt remains of a shack that caught fire in Barcelona during the early hours of Tuesday morning. Gelvandale police members rushed to the scene in Virgo Street at about 1.10am after receiving a call about a shack on fire. Firefighters also responded to the scene and were able to extinguish the blaze, but the body of Elton Saterdag was sadly found among the wreckage.
Five people died early on Friday in a shack fire in Khayelitsha, Cape Town.