Fire Kills Eight at S.African Orphanage

Local Editor

A pre-dawn blaze killed eight people, mostly children, at an orphanage in the South African coastal city of Durban Thursday, emergency services said.

Six of the victims were children, with the youngest just eight years old.

The fire tore through the boys’ section of the orphanage and all those who died were males aged between eight and 21.

The blaze was extinguished about four hours later and the cause is being investigated.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team