Cape Town - Five people were killed in three separate fires in the Cape Peninsula on Sunday morning, the City of Cape Town Fire Service said.
“Just before 3am this [Sunday] morning the City’s Fire and Rescue Service responded to an informal settlement fire, Salamander Road Command, Hout Bay,” said spokesman Theo Layne.
A man, a woman, and two minors were killed in the blaze which swept through the informal settlement, destroying 30 shacks.
Approximately 120 people were left displaced.
Police were on scene to investigate the cause of the fire.
An hour later, a man was killed when one shack was razed to the ground in Solomon street, Mfuleni.
Earlier on Sunday morning, 25 people were left displaced when seven shacks were destroyed during a fire at the Village Heights informal settlement in Lavender Hill.
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