Death toll from Johannesburg fire rises to 76

The number of injured people admitted to hospital because of the fire also increased to 88, according to a provincial health official.

Squatters stand on a rooftop overlooking the scene of one of South Africa’s deadliest inner-city fires in Johannesburg (Jerome Delay/AP)

Search teams have finished checking a derelict Johannesburg apartment building a day after one of South Africa’s deadliest fires broke out there.

It comes as pathologists face the task of identifying charred bodies and body parts that were transported in large trucks to mortuaries across the city.