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Gallery front |  Photos |  Fire leaves over 800 homeless in Vrygrond.
Fire leaves over 800 homeless in Vrygrond.

Fire leaves over 800 homeless in Vrygrond.

Over 800 people were left homeless after a fire ravaged Overcome Heights, an informal township in Vrygrond.
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Date taken
23 October 2018
Photo by
Ashraf Hendricks
Credit
Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp
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Informal Settlements
Keywords
Disaster,  Fire,  Housing,  Overcome Heights

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