South Africa: Public Urged to Assist Fire Survivors

2 August 2010

Pretoria — The Gauteng Health and Social Development has urged the public to come on board and assist the survivors of a fire that gutted the Pieter Wessels old age home in Nigel, Ekurhuleni.

The elderly people were left homeless on Sunday night when a fire broke out at the home killing 18 people and injuring about 40 others.

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