Picking up the pieces after Kennedy Road informal settlement fire: A child is still missing after a devastating fire ripped through the Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban on Sunday killing one person and leaving more than 2,000 homeless.
Remains at the Kennedy Road informal settlement after a fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday, leaving more than 2,000 people homeless.A child is still missing after a devastating fire ripped through the Kennedy Road informal settlement in Durban on Sunday, killing one person and leaving more than 2,000 homeless.
The fire started in the early hours of Sunday and destroyed 1,101 homes, leaving 1,710 adults and 647 children without a roof over their heads. Unconfirmed reports state the fire started after a fight between two men. One set a shack belonging to the other on fire in the central part of the settlement and it spread.
“Children should be returning to school tomorrow [today], but they don’t have school uniforms or clothes to change. We have too many problems to deal with, but shelter is the most important.”
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