Fire guts Plumtree quarantine centre

OVER 100 quarantined deportees and returnees from Botswana yesterday escaped death by a whisker after fire gutted Plumtree High School’s Beit Hall where they were housed, reducing it to a shell.

The fire, suspected to have emanated from an electrical fault, reportedly started mid-morning and raged for hours after the Plumtree Fire Brigade failed to contain the inferno.

Council chairperson Fanisani Dube, whose ward hosts Plumtree High School, confirmed the inferno.

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