5th September 2011

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90 killed in Cape Town fires

Cape Town Fire and Rescue s Theo Layne said 67 of the 90 deaths were in informal settlements and 23 in formal housing.

Ninety people have died in fires around Cape Town since the beginning of the year, nearly twice the number who perished in blazes in the first eight months of last year.

On Saturday night, three people, including one who was eight months’ pregnant, died in a huge fire that left 200 homeless in a Kuils River informal settlement.

Nomfuselo Hoyo, 39, who was pregnant, died with her 19-year-old daughter, Unathi Hoyo, and grandchild Asthandi, 4.

Last month, 29 people died in fires in suburbs and informal settlements. Seventeen children have died in fires since June.

Cape Town Fire and Rescue’s Theo Layne said 67 of those deaths were in informal settlements and 23 in formal housing.