Gqeberha police have opened inquest dockets following two fatal fires in the city.
Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says in the first fire on Monday night a woman and her 10-month-old baby girl died when their shack in Elijah Street in Walmer Township burnt down.
She says 35-year-old Bukelwa Klaas and her baby Likhaya were asleep when the fire started.
Naidu says firefighters were called out to a second fire at a block of flats in Park Drive at 8 am on Tuesday, next to the St Georges Hospital.
She says a fire broke out on the second floor where a 65-year-old resident died.
The cause of both fires are still unknown and will be investigated by authorities.
Her name has not yet been released.
