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Police have opened an inquest docket after a 41-year-old man died in a fire that engulfed his shack at Airport Valley in Walmer Township in Gqeberha.
Spokesperson, Captain Sandra Janse Van Rensburg, said the man’s girlfriend managed to escape the blaze in the early hours of Sunday morning.
She said Walmer SAPS were called to the scene at around 4 AM.
“On arrival, they were informed that a woman and her boyfriend were sleeping in the shack. When they woke up, they noticed that the shack was burning,” she said.
Janse Van Rensburg said the woman ran out to get help and was under the impression that her boyfriend followed her however the fire spread and two more shacks burned down.
After the fire was extinguished, the body of the Siphosethu Magebula was found.
“The cause of the fire is unknown. An inquest was opened at Walmer and will be investigated,” she said.
