Two children were lucky to emerge alive after a shack fire broke out at the One Nation informal settlement in Windhoek's Tobias Hainyeko Contiuency on Monday afternoon.

The two children, aged three and ten, were reportedly on their own when the incident occurred.

According to neighbours, they noticed smoke coming from the shack and screams from passersby that the dwelling was burning.

The neighbours attempted to extinguish the fire but to no avail.

Attempts to put out the fire were in vain, and no household goods could be salvaged.

Two siblings, aged 17 and 12 years old, from Kikiya Village in the Zambezi Region, died last night when the mud room they were sleeping in caught fire.

The deceased were identified as Morris Sikunga Samuya and Lewis Munali Samuya.

Morris was a Grade 8 learner at Linyanti Secondary School, while his younger brother Lewis was a Grade 5 learner at the nearby Kisako Primary School.

Villagers woke up around five o'clock on Thursday morning to discover that the hut in which the two boys were sleeping had completely burned out, with smoke still visible from it.

An 83-year-old resident of Kazauli Village in the Katima Rural Constituency was left homeless after her house was gutted by fire.

The fire, which was started by one of her grandchildren, spread through the house and caught on the clothes.

The child then ran out of the house.

The senior citizen and her son were seated under a tree outside the courtyard when the incident happened.

Silinda Matomola told nbc News that his mother lost all her belongings in the fire.

Matomola saw smoke from the courtyard and thought it was coming from the cooking area.

A fire destroyed the abandoned Edel Date Farm south of Mariental on Friday night.

Heinrich Swapo Ndume, the owner of Octant Investment Pty, which owns shares in the date farm, confirmed that a fire had ripped through the farm, causing major damage.

Ndume suspects the fire was an act of arson, describing the damage caused by the fire as devastating.

He claims that the farm, which spanned 40 hectares, 30 of which were under cultivation, exported dates worth approximately N$52 million to the United Arab Emirates and South Africa each year.