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Original Post Date: 2007-08-01 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
He was to join his family in the United Kingdom soon, to see his son get married. But now the father is dead… burnt in a fire he couldn’t escape because of his locked security gate.
And the man’s wife – overseas preparing for the wedding – will now have to return home for his funeral.
The man, who cannot be identified as his next of kin had not been notified, was burnt beyond recognition when gas exploded in his South Hills, Joburg, house about 6am on Monday.
Emergency services spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said the man had been unable to open the security gate to get out of the house.
| ‘Now she has to rush back home’ |
Firefighters put out the fire about two hours later.
When The Star arrived at the scene, distraught relatives gathered outside the partially burnt house, crying. Police said the man’s body was still trapped in the house.
The man’s cousin, George Lourinho, told The Star that he had heard about the death on the news but never thought it was someone he knew – especially not his cousin.
He added that his cousin’s wife was overseas preparing for their son’s wedding.
“Now she has to rush back home,” he said.
A neighbour, Eugene Bredorus, said he had heard two explosions and rushed outside to investigate.
“The house was already on fire. The neighbours were screaming hysterically outside. We phoned the fire department. While the fire was still raging, we tried to put out the flames using a hosepipe, which could not help as the flames were too high,” he said.
He added that the gate had been locked and that the neighbours had been unable to get close enough to the house to fight the fire.
“The firefighters had to cut the gate in order to gain entry into the yard, and the security gate of the house was also locked. There were no screams inside the house indicating that there was someone trapped.”
He said they also tried to look for a puppy, but could not find it. “I think the puppy was also burnt to death inside the house.”
According to the neighbour, the man had intended going to join his wife for the wedding in Britain soon.
Joburg police spokesperson Inspector Lorraine van Emmerik said an inquest docket had been opened.