Eyewitness News: More than 200 left destitute by CT shack fire

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More than 200 left destitute by CT shack fire
Malungelo Booi

Residents from QQ Section in Khayelitsha, one of the biggest townships in Cape Town will spend the afternoon re-building their shacks following a devastating fire on Tuesday night.

More than 200 people have been left homeless by the blaze.

Disaster management officials have began distributing building material to several residents who have been left homeless due to the blaze. Each family will receive five corrugated iron sheets to re-erect their structures.

Most residents who spoke to Eyewitness News said they lost everything including their identity documents. It is understood an illegal electricity connection started the fire. Locals said a dog locked inside one of the shacks was burnt to death.

(Edited by Lindiwe Mlandu)