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The roof of a Brazilian church caved in shortly after a religious service, killing seven people and injuring 57.
About 60 people were inside when the roof fell, Reborn in Christ church spokeswoman Marli Goncalves said.
Police and rescuers picked through a latticework of bent steel splayed across the floor of the evangelical church, housed in a former movie theater in Sao Paulo.
Goncalves said the church can hold 2,000 worshipers but was relatively empty at the time of the collapse because it happened between services.
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