Tragedy has struck after a Cape Town police sergeant, his wife, and two children reportedly died from smoke inhalation as the result of a house fire that they weren’t able to escape.
Their home in Wesbank, Mfuleni caught fire on Friday evening, October 8 as Eminetra reports.
Various crews from Belhar, Bellville and Kuils River responded to the incident after police were informed that family members were still in the burning house.
While the family’s 18-year-old daughter and her 11-month old baby managed to escape with only minor burn wounds and were being treated in hospital for smoke inhalation, as per News24, the bodies of the 48-year-old police sergeant and his 38-year-old wife were discovered in their bedroom.
Their two children, aged eight and four, were found in the passage already dead, Western Cape police spokesperson Brigadier Novela Potelwa said.
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