Firefighters attend the Usindiso building after a fire on 31 August.
When first responders arrived at the 80 Albert Avenue fire in Johannesburg, they saw the bodies of two people who had jumped from the five-storey building.
On Friday, this was revealed on the second day of the commission of inquiry into the Usindiso building fire.
The commission, chaired by Justice Sisi Virginia Khampepe, was established to look into the circumstances of the fire on 31 August and the prevalence of abandoned and hijacked buildings in the inner city.
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