Firefighters said they pulled the bodies of a man, a woman, and an unidentified person as well as of two children from the structure.
JOHANNESBURG - Five people including two children died in a shack fire in Khayelitsha in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The City's fire and rescue service said the blaze was reported at around 4:30 am in the France informal settlement."When the fire crew arrived on scene they were confronted by a fully engulfed structure. As fire fighting operations ensued the bodies of three adults as well as those of a boy and girl were discovered the fire was extinguished and the scene was handed over to the South African Police Service".
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