Three people are being treated in hospital for serious burn wounds after a fire ripped through two informal settlements in Dunoon, Cape Town at the weekend. At least 200 people have been left homeless as a result of two fires in the area.
Three people are being treated in hospital for serious burn wounds after a fire ripped through two informal settlements in Dunoon, Cape Town at the weekend. At least 200 people have been left homeless as a result of two fires in the area. Among them was Phumeza Mpekula who returned home on Monday morning to find that her home and all her belongings had burnt down.
The single mother of two had spent the weekend at a family event in the Eastern Cape and returned to find her three-room shack at Bekheka informal settlement gutted. Hers was among 32 shacks that burned after midnight on Saturday. Two men were taken to New Somerset Hospital, and a woman was rushed to Groote Schuur Hospital in a critical condition. In another fire late Sunday in nearby Siyahlala informal settlement, 51 shacks burnt down, leaving 109 people outside in the cold and rain. On Monday, people in Siyahlala informal settlement were clearing charred debris from their plots to start rebuilding. At Bekheka only a few shacks had been rebuilt. Loyiso Faso who lived in a two-room shack with his wife and three childre
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