Daily News reports that a shopfitter has been badly injured after jumping out of a window in a desperate attempt to escape a fire in a student residence under construction at the Durban University of Technology (DUT).  

Durban central fire station division commander, Trevor Stevens, said the man suffered severe burns in the blaze on Wednesday afternoon.  Dr Gopalkrishna Chetty, special assistant to the vice-chancellor of the DUT, confirmed the fire broke out in the Winterton block of the new student village under construction on the Steve Biko Campus.  The room on fire was one in which the workers stored their equipment, including paint, paint thinner and their clothes.

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