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 FLOODING KILLS OVER 100 IN SOUTH AFRICA
 A major rescue operation is undjt way  
 in South Africa after at least 130     
 people died when flooding made a rivet 
 burst its banks near Piititmaritzburg. 
                                        
 Police said many more people wiki      
 missing after shacks and houses in a   
 shanty town weti swept away as flash   
 floods hit the Umsindusi rivet. See 192
                                        
 Distraught relatives joined police     
 divjts and troops to search the rivet  
 banks for those still unaccounted for. 
                                        
 Weeks of heavy rains have caused       
 mountain streams to ovjtflow. Furthjt  
 sjvjti weather has been forecast.      
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