Neighbours tried to save elderly KZN fire victims: MEC
Updated | By Nushera Soodyal
A team of counsellors has been sent to Mandeni in northern KZN where two elderly women died in a fire.
Eighty-year-old Switty Mhlongo and her 68-year-old helper, Sizani Dube were in Mhlongo's home in KwaShepisi when the blaze started on Friday night.
READ: KZN house fires: eThekwini Fire appeals for caution
Mhlongo had been living with a disability.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
On Wednesday, Social Development MEC Nonhlanhla Khoza visited the victims' families and says a neighbour tried to save the two women.
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Khoza says the bereaved families and neighbours are receiving trauma counselling.
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