Two children died when a fire broke out in a house in Amandasig, north of Pretoria, on Tuesday, Tshwane emergency services EMS said.
EMS received a call about the fire before 8pm and the Rosslyn and Wonderboom fire stations attended to it and extinguished the blaze, EMS spokesperson Lindsay Zwelithini Mnguni said.
During search and rescue operations two dead children were discovered and a third one who sustained minor injuries was taken to hospital.