A fire has broken out in an orphanage, causing severe havoc and inflicting fatal horrors on several people.
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The fire which broke out early in the morning in a South African orphanage, left many people dead.
South African authorities revealed that eight people, some of them children, died in the fire.
Six of the victims were children, with the youngest just eight years old.
Speaking with AFP, emergency services spokesman Robert McKenzie, said: “We responded to the fire at about 2.20am (0020 GMT) this morning.”
“Four more people were taken to hospital with injuries ranging from serious to mild. None were in a critical condition.”
The fire tore through the boys’ section of the orphanage and all those who died were males aged between eight and 21.
The blaze was extinguished about four hours later and the cause is being investigated.