Eleven people were left destitute after their homes burnt down in the Bardale informal settlement in Cape Town.
|||Cape Town - Eleven people were left destitute after their homes burnt down in the Bardale informal settlement in Blue Downs, Cape Town's Disaster Risk Management Centre said on Tuesday.
The fire, in Parliament Street, destroyed two structures and caused damage estimated at R84 000 on Monday night, spokesman Wilfred Solomons-Johannes said in a statement.
The victims tried to douse the fire using buckets of water. It is suspected that the fire was started by a short circuit.
Solomons-Johannes appealed to residents to isolate electrical devices and extinguish gas burners, candles, lamps, and paraffin stoves when going to bed to prevent fires.
Sapa