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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Local media in South Africa report that at least 13 people are dead after part of a church collapsed.
Broadcaster News24 cites KwaZulu-Natal emergency medical services spokesman Robert McKenzie as saying heavy rainfall may have been to blame for the collapse Thursday night in Dlangubo.
The report says the collapse at the Pentecostal church occurred as an Easter season service was underway.
It cites McKenzie as saying six people were seriously injured.
Officials are on their way to the site of the collapse.
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