A nighttime hearth ripped by way of a rundown five-story constructing in Johannesburg that was occupied by squatters and homeless individuals, killing at the very least 74 individuals, emergency companies in South Africa’s greatest metropolis mentioned.
A number of the individuals dwelling in a maze of shacks and different makeshift constructions contained in the constructing threw themselves out of home windows on Thursday to flee the fireplace and may need died then, a neighborhood authorities official mentioned. Seven of the victims had been kids, the youngest a one-year-old, based on an emergency companies spokesperson.
Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller has extra from Johannesburg, South Africa.
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