Four killed in SA blast

Pretoria - Four people were killed and two seriously injured in a blast yesterday at a house in a residential suburb of South…

Pretoria - Four people were killed and two seriously injured in a blast yesterday at a house in a residential suburb of South Africa's capital Pretoria, police said.

The explosion destroyed the house in the Villieria suburb north of the city centre and was apparently caused by commercial explosives, a police spokesman said.

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