MOSSEL BAY NEWS - The KwaNonqaba community is mourning the death of two-year-old Limandla Ncube in a fire. Her parents and sibling, a 10 year old, miraculously survived.
On Monday, 29 October at approximately 06:40 the 10 year old, a learner at Imekhaya Primary School, woke from the noise of sparks from the electrical meter box that had allegedly been installed officially in the informal dwelling, off Queen Street, KwaNonqaba.
As soon as the parents were awake, they ran outside with the 10 year old.
Once the child was safely outside, the mother ran back into the flames in an attempt to save the toddler.
In the process the mother suffered extensive burn wounds to her upper body, arms and face. The toddler's father also suffered burn wounds.
When the Mossel Bay Fire and Disaster Management firefighters arrived on the scene, they were informed of the presence of the baby in the burning dwelling.
"We did whatever we could, but when I lifted one of the sheets of corrugated iron I discovered the body of the little girl," a fireman told the Mossel Bay Home Ads News.
Friends, family and neighbours are traumatised after a two year old died in a fire on Monday morning, 29 October. INSET: The fire razed the dwelling and destroyed everything the family owned. Photos: Nickey le Roux
The firefighters asked for police backup and called on the Western Cape Forensics Department to attend to the scene of the fire. When the Home Ads visited the scene later on Monday morning, on the erf where the dwelling was razed, plastic tape had been used to cordon off the area where only ashes and warped corrugated iron sheets paid testimony to the tragedy.
The mother's sister, who lives next door, Fundiswa Manyova, and a neighbour, Nombulelo Minana, said the early morning fire was absolutely terrifying. Manyova said her sister's condition was so severe that they expected her to be transferred to the George Provincial Hospital.
She speculated that the 10 year old and his father would stay with family in KwaNonqaba.
The scene photographed directly after the fire. Photo: Supplied
The fire razed the dwelling and destroyed everything the family owned.
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