### [2025-12-12](/feed/2025/12/12/index.md)

##### Hindu temple
# Four people are killed and eleven others are rescued when an under-construction building on top of a Hindu temple collapses in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. 




### Sources:

1. [AP](https://apnews.com/article/building-collapse-south-africa-temple-verulam-ec650d93dca9d1233363acf888bad859)
2. [SABC](https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/1090053-2/)

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