Johannesburg fire: 73 killed in apartment block reported occupied by homeless

SOUTH AFRICA, Johannesburg – Scores were killed overnight when fire tore through a derelict Johannesburg apartment block occupied by homeless people, officials and local media said on Thursday, as emergency evacuations from the blackened building continued. The fire killed at least 73 people and injured 43, the municipal government said, in one of South Africa’s worst such tragedies in living…

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