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Six family members killed in house fire in NW

───   06:42 Fri, 26 May 2017

Six family members killed in house fire in NW | News Article
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Potchefstroom - Six family members have died after their home caught fire in Phohung Section, Ganyesa on Wednesday night.


North West police spokesperson, Pelonomi Makau says a 73-year-old man, his 35-year old daughter and four children between the ages of three and nine, were sleeping in their one-roomed house when a bed in which the daughter and children were sleeping caught fire. She says the woman and children burned to death. The father allegedly died of smoke inhalation.

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