The children aged between six-days-old and three years were sleeping with their mothers when the house was set alight, one of them died.

A two-year-old minor and his uncle were killed in a fire after their house was engulfed by flames in KwaZulu-Natal.

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Police suspect no foul play after five members of a family including a couple and three-year-old perished in a house fire

A man had to jump into a swimming pool to extinguish fire from his body after a generator exploded in his face in Moreleta Park, Pretoria.

Police said they remain on high alert after three men were brutally murdered in Vryburg on Tuesday afternoon.

Paramedics said two people were killed and a child critically injured in a house fire in Eastwood in the early hours of Saturday.

December fire fatalities are sadly a regular feature in Cape Town. A Kraaifontein fire has killed a boy of three and a six-year-old girl.