A fire ripped through the five-storey hijacked building on Albert Street in the early hours of Thursday morning, claiming more than 70 lives.
JOHANNESBURG - A survivor of last week’s Marshalltown building fire tragedy, where 77 people lost their lives, said that on the night of the tragedy, the gates on the first three floors of the building were locked.
A fire ripped through the five-storey hijacked building on Albert Street in the early hours of Thursday morning. "When I was asking those staying at third floor, first floor, second floor why people got burnt inside, they said the gates were locked on both sides, because the passage has two gates, that’s why they had to jump."
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