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Jamie Pyatt & Charlie Duffield

Johannesburg floods: Desperate search for survivors as 14 killed in deadly water surge

Fourteen members of a church congregation have drowned after a deadly flash flood surged down on them as they performed a ritual.

The body of water had a surge wave over two feet high and washed over 33 terrified worshippers, who were at a cleansing service on the Jukskei River in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Most were standing on rocks, or in ankle deep water in the dirty river close to a township.

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