13 slaughtered in a chapel breakdown in South Africa

JOHANNESBURG: Thirteen individuals were killed and 16 harmed when part of a congregation fallen on admirers following a rough tempest close to the eastern South African city of Durban, authorities said Friday.

The mishap happened late Thursday when a block divider under a temporary rooftop crumbled amid an administration at a Pentecostal church, a change over the shelter, in the town of Ndlangubo, north of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal area.

"Such a disaster. 13 fatalities 16 individuals treated by paramedics," tweeted Robert McKenzie, a representative for Kwa-Zulu Natal region's crisis administrations.

Experts said the episode occurred amid a Passover administration around 1115 pm (2115 GMT) as many admirers assembled for the long few days of Easter administrations.

"The gatherers were dozing in the structure after the community gathering finished soon after 10 pm," said commonplace police representative Colonel Thembeka Mbele.

"There were overwhelming breeze and downpour and the dividers were fallen. The 13 affirmed dead are 12 ladies and one kid. An examination docket has been opened and police are still at the scene," included Mbele.

Many nearby individuals, stupified by the disaster, invested hours pacing the demolished inside of the structure.

"There was no (cell phone) arrange so I just raced to the police headquarters and called the police, they reacted in all respects rapidly and they helped us," Pastor P.Y. Sibiya told AFP.

Zwelihle Dhlamini, who lost a partner in the catastrophe, told AFP of his stun.

"At this moment, I can't accept what has occurred. Regardless I have not recuperated from the stun as are our associates. They are as yet calling me, they are as yet sending messages as though something is going to change."

Mildred Oliphant, the commonplace pastor of work and an individual from the congregation, said it was hard to deal with the fiasco, "however we realize God has his own reasons.

"I would go to the congregation today. Most likely before one week from now's over, we will know precisely whether the structure was appropriately manufactured or what were the difficulties about the structure before we state anything."

Police have in the interim propelled an examination while different assemblages joined experts in passing on sympathies.

"We have been petitioning God for them, our true sympathies to the families. As Christians, we petition God for each other in awful and great occasions. In fact, those individuals of Empangeni are in our petitions," said South African Council of Churches (SACC) commonplace agent director Father Mlungisi Ntsele.