South Africa emergency services revise slum gas leak death toll to 16

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South African emergency services revised the death toll on Thursday from a gas leak at a slum near Johannesburg to 16 from an initial report of 24.

"We have got 16 on scene now that are confirmed dead, and the intervention of paramedics managed to revive some others and they were taken to hospital," emergency services spokesman William Ntladi told AFP from the scene, adding 16 were hospitalized.

Source(s): AFP