The death toll rose from Thursday's predawn blaze rose to 76 after two people died in a hospital overnight, Health Minister Joe Phaahla told reporters.
Emergency services teams have left the scene of one of South Africa's deadliest fires at a derelict Johannesburg apartment block and pathologists on Friday faced the grisly task of identifying dozens of charred bodies and some body parts that were transported in large trucks to mortuaries across the city. That will establish whether the death
Emergency services teams have left the scene of one of South Africa's deadliest inner-city fires Pathologists now face the grisly task of identifying dozens of charred bodies and some body parts that have been transported to several mortuaries across the city of Johannesburg.
JOHANNESBURG (AP): Search teams finished checking a derelict Johannesburg apartment building a day after one of South Africa’s deadliest fires broke out there as pathologists faced the grisly task Friday of identifying charred bodies and body parts.