Cape Town – A 37-year-old mother and four children, including a two-week-old baby, were reportedly killed when the house they were sleeping in caught fire on Saturday evening in KwaZulu-Natal.
According to IOL, Zanokuhle, two weeks old, Onge, 2, Noluthando, 9, Anathi, 9 and their mother Bongekile Mthembu, 37, were sleeping when they were rescued from a burning house by neighbours.
The five were rushed to a nearby clinic for treatment of inhalation and burn wounds before being transferred to the hospital, where they died.
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News24 reported that the provincial government announced on Monday that two more family members who died in the house had been identified – Thobeka, 31, and Ayabonga, 7 – bringing the total number of deaths to 7.
“A team of social workers was immediately assigned to provide psycho-social support, trauma debriefing and trauma containment to the bereaved family and neighbours following their ordeal,” the report quoted Social Development Spokesperson Mhlaba Memela as saying.
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Compiled by Sinothando Siyolo
