They were last seen drinking and having fun in a friend’s shack. Residents of Site B in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, were shocked hours later when they saw flames consume the shack, killing friends Nolufefe Zongile (30), Mkhululi Tovana (45), Sinovuyo Chali (25), Eric Libalele (34) and Anitha Bhontsi (24).
Siviwe Xhalanga (39) who lives in the same yard as Nolufefe said she last saw the group around 10 p.m. before going to bed.
“They were still drinking, and there were two candles lit in the shack.” I’m not sure what happened after that. I awoke after midnight to screams and some noise.
“That’s when I realized the shack was on fire,” Siviwe explained.
Nangamso (33) Anitha’s cousin, said she had been drinking with the deceased earlier in the day but decided to go home.
She expressed shock that her lovely cousin died in such a manner.
“My cousin was a very active young lady.” She enjoyed making people laugh. “I don’t know what happened, and it’s unfortunate that none of them survived to tell us,” Nangamso said.
Jermaine Carelse, a spokesman for the City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Service, said the service was notified at 1:50 a.m. that an informal structure in Bhemye Crescent was on fire.
“Although firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the blaze, they discovered the bodies of five people who had died as a result of fatal burn wounds,” Carelse said.
After a shack caught fire on Friday, a police spokesman, Captain Frederick van Wyk, said an inquest case had been opened for investigation.
Five people were killed by fire. The fire’s origin is unknown. “Investigations are ongoing,” Van Wyk said.
Sad scenes: Night of fun ends in tears as 5 friends burnt to death in a shack fire
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