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As many as 63 people were killed and 43 sustained injuries on Thursday after a fire broke out in the central business district of South Africa’s Johannesburg, the municipal government said. The city administration took to X, formerly Twitter, and said that search and rescue efforts were on. “The City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services can confirm that the number of fatalities has gone up to 63,” it said, as quoted by Reuters.
According to photographs captured by Reuters, firefighters and emergency vehicles were at the scene, while bodies lay covered in emergency blankets on a street near the site of the blaze. According to the media, fire engulfed a five-storey building that was abandoned at one stage but where people had been living. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.
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