The City of Ekurhuleni emergency management services responded to two fires one that claimed the lives of two people and the other which gutted a liquor store in the early hours of Wednesday.
City EMS spokesperson William Ntladi said in the first incident, firefighters found the Jambo liquor store in Boksburg North on fire.
Currently, no casualties are accounted for thus far, and the cause of the fire is still undetermined, Ntladi said.