Five people have died in a shack fire in the informal settlement of Lwandle, in Somerset West, outside Cape Town.
A blaze gutted two shacks killing an entire family, including three children in the early hours of Friday morning.
Cape Town Disaster Risk Management’s Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said the cause of the accident is unknown.
In a separate incident, 15 shacks were destroyed in the township of Langa, also outside Cape Town, on Thursday night. No injuries were reported there.
[Story appeared on Eyewitness News]