Sunday, October 28, 2007

Cape shack fires kill two

Two shack fires in the Cape Peninsula on Sunday have left about 80 people without homes, SABC reported.

Cape Town Fire said more than 50 people were displaced when their shacks burnt down early on Sunday morning in the Wallacedene area of Kraaifontein near Cape Town.

In the second fire about 30 people lost their houses in a blaze in the Kosovo area of the Samora Machel informal settlement in Philippi.

No one was injured in the fires.

Meanwhile, two people were killed in a fire at Atlantis on the Cape West Coast on Sunday. Authorities said a wooden house caught alight in the early morning and burnt down.

The man and woman were living in a wendy house at the back of a dwelling. The cause of the blaze is not known, SABC reported. Police are investigating. - Sapa

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