Three people died in a shack fire that broke out in the densely populated Ekuphumuleni settlement in Joe Slovo Park, Milnerton, in Cape Town on Saturday night. The blaze destroyed 20 shacks, including some two-storey structures, leaving 73 people homeless.
According to community leader Cowen Banjatwa, the deceased were from Malawi. He appealed to authorities to de-densify the informal settlement and provide basic services such as water.He said he was asleep when the fire broke out. Another neighbour forced her way into his shack to wake him. He then joined other residents trying to extinguish the flames before he realised his own shack was on fire.
City of Cape Town disaster risk management spokesperson Charlotte Powell said SASSA had been informed to provide humanitarian relief. The City was clearing the debris.
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