“I saw them with my own eyes. They pushed the trolleys and put everything they could in them.”
A fireman who was at the scene attending to the fire at the Brookside Mall said on Monday morning that while firefighters battled the blaze, people were emptying the shelves.
He said that at the corners of Masukwana and Jabu Ndlovu streets, five shops were set alight.
At the corners of Hoosen Haffejee and Masukwana Streets, another shop was set alight. He added that Masukwana Street is totally off limits.
“It is totally barricaded.”
The firefighter added that houses were also set alight at Cinderella Park.
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