An apartment fire in the South African city of Johannesburg has killed at least 76 people, including 12 children, and highlighted the city’s housing crisis, which has led to terrible conditions ...

At least 74 people were killed, including 12 children, in a horrifying fire that destroyed a run-down five-storey apartment building in Johannesburg, South Africa, early Thursday morning.

Johannesburg is one of the world’s most unequal cities with widespread poverty, joblessness and a housing crisis. It has about 15,000 homeless people, according to Gauteng’s provincial government.

five-storey Johannesburg apartment block, one of the worst such disasters in a city where poverty, household fires and homelessness are widespread. The building was gutted, blackened by soot and ...

The massive fire that struck a tower block in Johannesburg on Thursday is now known to have killed 74 people, including twelve children, the youngest aged just one, emergency services in South ...

It may take time to determine what started an apartment fire in Johannesburg early Thursday morning and why more than 70 people died. But witness accounts, imagery of the blaze and a visit to the ...