South Africa: Cape Fire Claims Life

As the country's attention was transfixed on the Table Mountain fires, another blaze claimed one life and left three families homeless in a Franschhoek informal settlement.

Abraham van Wyk died after his shack caught alight shortly before dawn on Monday morning. The fire which started in Van Wyk's shack, which he shared with two other people, spread through a sparsely populated section of Langrug informal settlement, on the foothills above Franschhoek. Neighbour Barend Paulse escaped from his shack, just in time to see it go up in flames.

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