# A shack fire has claimed the lives of five family members, while one teenager escaped with no injuries in Steve Biko Informal Settlement, Etwatwa, in Ekurhuleni on Sunday midnight. Disaster and Emergency Management Services spokesperson, William Ntladi, says when they arrived on the scene, they found a five-roomed shack engulfed by flames with entrapment on their arrival. He says father, mother, and three children were declared dead on scene by paramedics:
Five family members die in a shack fire in Ekurhuleni [SOUND]
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