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I told God that I did not want to die: girl, 11, on KZN church collapse

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'I bent down, I can't remember why, but as I did a massive window came flying straight towards me and hit me at the back of the head. I fell flat onto my face.'

"I started praying. I told God that I did not want to die and I asked him to please save everyone," the grade 8 pupil said hours after surviving Thursday night's storm disaster at a KwaZulu-Natal church in which 13 people were killed.

The storm began with drizzle, then thunder and lightning, said S'bani, an orphan who lives with her grandmother, Peggy Ndabandaba, in Empangeni.Part of the roof blew off and S'bani joined a stampede towards the middle of the building."I bent down, I can't remember why, but as I did a massive window came flying straight towards me and hit me at the back of the head. I fell flat onto my face," she said.11-year-old S'bani Phiri.

A male congregant dug her out and a woman carried the schoolgirl to safety."I got onto her back and she took me to the pastor's house where we waited for help," she said. Her grandmother said she had almost reached home after dropping S'bani at the church when she got a call about the tragedy.

 

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