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News - South Africa: Deaf and speech-impaired girl survives fire
A day after a fire swept through an orphanage on the outskirts of Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, seven survivors, who include six children, were on Wednesday morning still in hospital.
"They are in a stable condition and all are suffering from smoke inhalation," said Newcastle Provincial Hospital's spokesperson Sabelo Buthelezi.
One of the survivors is believed to be a three-week-old baby. Another survivor is a girl who could not hear or speak, that friends of Sarah Holland - who started the Hope In Christ Orphanange - feared was among the dead.
Holland's friend Mummygirl Pather said the girl arrived at Holland's smallholding unable to speak. Holland using the animals on the farm as a form of therapy was able to get the girl to speak. Already the Newcastle community is coming to the aid of the survivors.
They are offering financial support and community leaders have been visiting the injured.
Meanwhile, police are beginning the process of forensic examining the house to try and establish what the course of the blaze that killed 11 people was.
A day after a fire swept through an orphanage on the outskirts of Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal, seven survivors, who include six children, were on Wednesday morning still in hospital.
"They are in a stable condition and all are suffering from smoke inhalation," said Newcastle Provincial Hospital's spokesperson Sabelo Buthelezi.
One of the survivors is believed to be a three-week-old baby. Another survivor is a girl who could not hear or speak, that friends of Sarah Holland - who started the Hope In Christ Orphanange - feared was among the dead.
Holland's friend Mummygirl Pather said the girl arrived at Holland's smallholding unable to speak. Holland using the animals on the farm as a form of therapy was able to get the girl to speak. Already the Newcastle community is coming to the aid of the survivors.
They are offering financial support and community leaders have been visiting the injured.
Meanwhile, police are beginning the process of forensic examining the house to try and establish what the course of the blaze that killed 11 people was.