Blankets and sheets still hang from the blackened windows, used by the desperate to reach safety as flames turned the five-storey building in downtown Johannesburg into a death trap.
Others just jumped.
Trapped residents fled through windows in S.African inferno
Blankets and sheets still hang from the blackened windows, used by the desperate to reach safety as flames turned the five-storey building in downtown Johannesburg into a death trap.
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EDITORS NOTE: / A man wearing forensic clothes speaks to a member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) in Johannesburg on August 31, 2023. More than 70 people have died in a fire that engulfed a five-storey building in central Johannesburg on August 31, 2023, the South African city's emergency services said. -- Photo: Guillem Sartorio / AFP
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