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Two killed in Cape town shack fires


 Two people were killed, 41 shacks burned down and 105 people were displaced when 4 fires broke out in Cape Town over the weekend.

Disaster management spokesperson Wilfred Solomons-Johannes says a man died on Sunday when a fire destroyed 12 shacks and left 12 people homeless in Khayelitsha.

Earlier, another man was killed in the same area.

A third blaze destroyed some 26 shacks.

Solomons-Johannes said Cape Town's disaster response teams would assist the victims with food parcels, blankets, baby packs, clothing and building material.