Death toll rises to 30 in South African bush fires

Friday, September 07, 2001
By Sue Thomas, Reuters

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa At least 30 people, including six children, have died in bush fires fanned by high winds across South Africa's bushveld over the past two days, police said this week.
The death toll in a fire that raged through Kruger National Park in the country's northeast on Tuesday and Wednesday rose to 21 after one man died of burns in the hospital overnight and a woman died early on Thursday, the hospital manager said.

Two men remained in the hospital, Nelspruit Medi-Clinic manager Sarel van der Walt said. "Their condition is still very critical but stable," he said.