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Nigerian Church Collapses, 160 Dead, Says Hospital Director

By Jim on Sun, 12/11/16
Society & Culture
Tragedy
Africa

Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshippers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, a hospital director said Sunday. Mortuaries in the city of Uyo are overflowing from Saturday’s tragedy, medical director Etete Peters of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital told The Associated Press.

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