A search and recovery operation is underway after a fire in a building in South Africa's biggest city killed at least 73 people and injured dozens more.
More than 70 people have died, including seven children, with several injured.A fire has ripped through a rundown five-storey building in Johannesburg that was occupied by homeless people and squatters, killing at least 73 people, emergency services in South Africa's biggest city said.
Dozens of bodies were lined up on a nearby side road, some in body bags, and others covered with silver sheets and blankets.Another 52 people were injured in the blaze, which broke out at about 1am in the heart of Johannesburg's central business district, Johannesburg Emergency Services Management spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said.
The fire took three hours to contain, he said, and firefighters had only worked their way through three of the building's five floors by mid-morning."Over 20 years in the service, I've never come across something like this."/The building's interior was effectively "an informal settlement" where shacks and other structures had been thrown up and people were crammed into rooms, he said.
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