Three adults and two children died in a blaze in Site B, Khayelitsha in the early hours on Sunday morning.
The City of Cape Town's fire and rescue services said the
victims had died in an informal structure.
"The City's Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to the
fire at 4.30am, with reports indicating that an informal structure was burning
in France informal settlement," said Jermaine Carelse, the City's Fire and
Rescue Service spokesperson.
Carelse said the victims all succumbed to burn wounds.
"When the fire crew from Lansdown Road Fire Station arrived
on scene they were confronted with a fully engulfed structure. As fire fighting
operations ensued the bodies of three adults, a man, a woman, and one whose
gender is unknown, as well as those of a boy and girl were discovered. They had
succumbed to fatal burn wounds.
Carelse added that the fire was extinguished just after
05:20 and the scene was handed over to the South African Police Service, shortly
after 06:00.
PICTURE: CoCT Fire & Rescue ServicesDone By: Mitchum George
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