Mbasa Gqokoma
01 August 2015
A girl believed to be
14-years-old died during a house fire late last night.
ER24 spokesperson Chitra
Bodasinf said ER24 paramedics and other services were alerted to a fire at a
house in Monument Heights in Kimberly and on arrival found the house well
alight.
She said a woman and two
children had made it out of the house safely. Fire and rescue extinguished the
fire.
Paramedics found a girl in one
of the corridors of the house. Unfortunately there was nothing paramedics could
do for her.
She was declared dead. The
exact cause of the incident is unknown, however authorities were on scene for further
investigations.
Meanwhile, two people died and
four others sustained minor to moderate injuries in a collision between a bike
and an SUV just outside Newcastle on Allen Road before the N11 Bridge.
ER24 spokesperson Chitra
Bodasing said when ER24 paramedics and other services arrived on scene, they
found a man and a woman lying next to the bike and SUV.
She said both of them who were
riding on the bike were assessed. They were found to have sustained multiple
injuries.
“Unfortunately there was
nothing paramedics could do for them, they were declared dead”
She added that the driver of
the SUV sustained minor injuries and the passengers in the vehicle sustained
moderate injuries.
They were treated and
transported to hospital for further medical care.
The exact cause of the
collision is unknown. Authorities were on scene for further investigations,
Bodasing concluded.
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