Monday, December 19, 2005

Blaze leaves 1 200 homeless

Devastation: Alfredo de Carvalho, seven, stands on the burnt-out remains of his mother's mini car which was destroyed, along with their shack and all their possessions, in a blaze that levelled 450 shacks in the Kosovo informal settlement in Philippi. Photo: Alan Taylor, Cape Times

A fire has destroyed 450 shacks in the Kosovo informal settlement in Philippi - leaving more than a thousand people homeless. Supplemental with an average of 4 residents per shack this figure is probably closer to 1,800 people displaced by this fire. Full Story....

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