Five people lose their lives in Western Cape fires
By Chanel September
18 November 2006
Five people lost their lives in three separate fires in the Western Cape.
All three fires occurred yesterday evening with the first incident at Yzerfontein on the Cape West coast.
Two people were recovered from an abandoned farmhouse that caught fire.
In Malmesbury one person was pulled from a house and fire fighters were still looking for another believed to have been trapped in the house.
According to SABC News at Black City informal settlement in Gugulethu two people burnt to death when their shack caught alight, destroying four dwellings.
And in Khayelitsha at Site C, a person died after a fire burnt out two dwellings.
18 November 2006
Five people lost their lives in three separate fires in the Western Cape.
All three fires occurred yesterday evening with the first incident at Yzerfontein on the Cape West coast.
Two people were recovered from an abandoned farmhouse that caught fire.
In Malmesbury one person was pulled from a house and fire fighters were still looking for another believed to have been trapped in the house.
According to SABC News at Black City informal settlement in Gugulethu two people burnt to death when their shack caught alight, destroying four dwellings.
And in Khayelitsha at Site C, a person died after a fire burnt out two dwellings.
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