350 homeless after shack blaze
2003-01-05 17:12
Cape Town - About 100 shacks have been destroyed in a fire at the SST informal settlement near Lansdowne Road in Khayelitsha on the Cape Flats, says SABC radio.
Tygerberg administration spokesman Willie Olivier told the radio no one was injured in the fire, which left about 350 people homeless. Emergency relief services supplied blankets and food parcels.
The cause of the fire has not been established.
- SAPA