About 70 people were left homeless following four separate fires in Cape Town on Tuesday.
The first fire, in Khayelitsha’s RR section around 7.30am destroyed eight shacks and displaced 27 people, disaster risk management spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said in a statement.
The second fire destroyed a house in Delft which left seven people homeless.
Around 10am four shacks burnt down at the Happy Valley informal settlement. Nineteen people, including six children, were affected.
The fourth fire at Mandela Park in Hout Bay engulfed seven shacks, with 17 people left homeless.
“The city’s disaster response teams assisted the victims with food parcels, clothing, blankets and building material.”
No one was injured and the causes of the fires were being investigated. — Sapa