A teacher who survived a bomb explosion that wiped out her family in 2011 has lost everything in a fire that gutted her shack in Phomolong informal settlement, in Atteridgeville, west of Pretoria. The fire occurred barely a week after Bellinda Matsane, 29, came out of hospital. She was operated on for injuries sustained in the blast."Why me? Just as I am picking up the pieces, now this.I have lost everything," she said."I was at work when I received a call from a neighbour telling me that my shack was on fire. I am still puzzled about what could have started the fire. All I know is that I am left with what I had on me."Matsane's husband, Amos Khoza, 37, and her four-year-old son, Njabulo, died in July 2011 when a mortar shell exploded when a bonfire was lit in their yard.Matsane was severely injured by shrapnel and spent a month in intensive care and two weeks in high care.Her R3-million legal claim for damages against the Tshwane municipality and Minister of Defence Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is yet to be finalised.Matsane and about 90000 squatters have built their homes in the Schurveberg area, a World War 2 artillery firing range.An estimated 10t of ammunition, including mortar rounds, mines, tank shells, grenades and bullets, are believed to have been dumped in trenches there in the 1940s.In October 1991, the defence force transferred ownership of the range to the Department of Public Works, which passed it on to Tshwane municipality.Squatters invaded the land about a year later...