Fires claim lives across the country

Andiswa Mkosi
10 June 2012

The George municipality in the Southern Cape is investigating claims that the siblings who died in a shack fire in Thembalethu had been left on their own.

The cause of the fire has not yet been established.

The family of the four-year-old and 11-year-old victims are receiving assistance.

Another two people died in a house fire in Northmead, Benoni, last night. Ekurhuleni fire-fighters found the bodies in the home after the blaze was extinguished.

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