Three children burnt to death in a fire in Browns Farm, Philippi, on Monday night.
City Fire spokesman Theo Layne said firefighters attended to a fire at around 9pm on Monday in which four informal structures were destroyed.
REPORT: Theo Layne. Photo: Supplied
Layne said the cause of the fire, in which two boys and one girl sustained fatal burns, was undetermined at this stage.
Police are investigating.
The incident follows a fire in Alexandra in Johannesburg on
Sunday in which four children died.
In that case, two of the mothers were arrested for negligence after they allegedly locked their children in a house while they visited a shebeen.