WATCH: Families share pain of losing loved ones in KZN #ChurchCollapse | Sunday Tribune

South Africa - Durban - 19 April 2019 - The identities of the 13 worshippers who died when a wall at their church collapsed shortly after 10pm on Thursday the 18 April 2019 have been revealed. They all lost their lives at the Pentecostal Holiness Church in northern KwaZulu-Natal following a violent storm which swept across the province, leaving behind a trail of damage and destruction.

On Thursday afternoon Lina Langa, 38, wished her mother, Alter Langa ,71, well as her mother left for the church. Little did she know it would be the final goodbye she said to her. “I left work immediately and when I got to the scene, it was still raining. I could see there were ambulances and police cars, but all I could think about was my children having to see the lifeless body of their grandmother.”

“This incident happened as congregants were preparing to rest for the night. A large part of the front wall collapsed, causing the traumatic disaster,” he said.Sibiya said they had tried to call the police. However, there was no cellphone reception network in the area and eventually someone drove to the police station to raise the alarm.

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