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Parents charged after children burn to death on Christmas
A couple aged 45 and 23 were arrested early on Saturday morning after their two children burnt to death in a shack in Hendrina.
It is alleged that the couple left their children, a girl (two) and a boy (three months) unattended on Christmas Day.
The bodies of the children were discovered lying on a mattress by members of the fire department who rushed to extinguish the fire.
The couple were charged with child abuse, deliberate neglect and abandonment of child by parents.
They are expected to appear before the Hendrina Magistrate’s court today.
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