More than a dozen employees suffered smoke inhalation when Durban's grand lady of hotels, The Royal Hotel, caught fire this morning.
The hotel - at which hundreds of British and Irish Lions supporters were staying - was evacuated after a generator blew up in the basement causing a fire which spread to the first floor.
Emergency services personnel said that 13 staff members suffered smoke inhalation and 11 were taken to hospital.
A paramedic said one person hurt his arm, while another person refused to go to hospital.
Metro Police senior superintendent Joyce Khuzwayo, confirmed that an electrical spark from the burst generator is believed to have caused the fire at the hotel, forcing hotel staff to evacuate hundreds of guests, including the Lions supporters.
Metro police spokesman Captain Siphiwe Ndlovu said that a number of guests had been treated for smoke inhalation and that Anton Lembede Street (formerly Smith Street) was cordoned off while emergency services staff attempted to control the fire.
The rugby fans who were due to check out from the hotel today, left the hotel at about 10am with their luggage and were transported to another nearby hotel.
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