Friday Briefing: A Deadly Fire in South Africa

South Africa’s deadliest residential fire in years

At least 74 people, including a dozen children, died yesterday in a fire in Johannesburg that tore through a building where squatters lived, city officials said. It was one of the deadliest residential fires in South Africa’s history.

My colleague Lynsey Chutel, who covers Johannesburg, arrived at the scene shortly after the fire broke out. “There was a real sense of chaos,” she said. “You could see people sitting on the sidewalk…