Swakopmund man dies in shack fire

Contributed by NAMPA.

SWAKOPMUND , 15 APR (NAMPA) - A 44-year-old man burned to death at Swakopmund when the shack in which he was caught fire in the early hours of Sunday.
A police incident report from Deputy Commissioner Erastus Iikuyu identified the victim as Peter Humphries.
His next of kin were informed.
Iikuyu said the man stayed alone in the shack behind a house in Mondesa, and was presumably sleeping when it caught fire.
The fire, Iikuyu said, spread to two other shacks in the neighbouring erf and ...