Happening Now: More than 70 dead in Johannesburg as fire guts migrants' building - Lejit Reporters

Happening Now: More than 70 dead in Johannesburg as fire guts migrants' building - Lejit Reporters

Happening Now: More than 70 dead in Johannesburg as fire guts migrants' building - Lejit Reporters

1. More than 70 people have died and more than 50 have been injured after a fire in South Africa's city of Johannesburg
2. The five-storey derelict building in the city centre was used by homeless migrants from neighbouring countries
3. The fire gutted the building in the early hours of Thursday morning - the search and recovery operation is continuing
4. Officials said bodies were piled up at a locked gate that had prevented them fleeing the burning building
5. Witnesses said some people had thrown themselves out of windows
6. The illegal occupation of disused buildings is common in Johannesburg - more than 80 shacks had been set up inside.