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Storm & lightning claims the lives of five in Cape Town

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Five people were killed, four of them in a fire caused by lightning, as a massive stormed raged in the Western Cape on Wednesday, reports News24.

“The four were killed in the blaze in Kraaifontein, Cape Town disaster risk management confirmed. A 60-year-old man was killed when a home collapsed on him in Lavender Hill,” says the report.

South Africa’s city Cape Town got the heavy rains and storm before midnight on Tuesday, leaving destruction on its wake.

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