Man to be charged with murder for deadly Johannesburg fire


  • World
  • Wednesday, 24 Jan 2024

FILE PHOTO: A firefighter works at the scene of a deadly blaze, in Johannesburg, South Africa August 31, 2023. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police have arrested a man suspected of starting the fire that killed more than 70 people in a hijacked building in downtown Johannesburg in August.

The 29-year-old man confessed to an inquiry tasked with determining responsibility for the blaze that he was involved in starting it, the police said in a statement sent to Reuters on Wednesday.

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