Two children set their house alight while playing with matches in Macassar, a Cape Town official said.
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Cape Town - Two children set their house alight while playing with matches in Macassar, a Cape Town official said on Monday.
Disaster risk management centre spokesman Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said the two-year-old girl and her 17-year-old mentally disabled sister started the fire on Sunday morning.
Parts of the house were gutted and parts were seriously damaged.
The siblings escaped without injury.
Solomons-Johannes said the two were apparently locked in the house while their mother went to a shebeen.
“Social workers will conduct an investigation today (on Monday) and the mother could face possible charges of child negligence in terms of the Children's Act,” he said. - Sapa