In South Africa, at least 7 people died in a high-rise apartment block fire in Johannesburg today. Emergency services said there could be more bodies inside the Cape York building in South Africa's commercial capital and that they had launched a search operation. <br/><br/>Emergency services spokesman Nana Hadebe said fifty people were rescued from the building and some were being treated for smoke inhalation, adding that the fire had been contained. Hadebe said the cause of the fire, in an impoverished downtown neighbourhood near the Ellis Park rugby stadium as well as the tourist district of Maboneng, was not immediately known.