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Relief group faces charges

    JOHANNESBURG

    The Mozambican government said on Monday it would start legal action against a Brazilian church NGO after one man died and five were injured in a stampede at a feeding centre.

    News reports quoted a government official as saying that the decision to take legal proceedings against the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (IURD) followed an official report by a commission of inquiry into the incident at Chiaquelane camp near the southern town of Chokwe last week.

    According to the report, IURD ignored local authorities and began a disorderly distribution of relief supplies. An IURD truck driver panicked when a large crowd rushed the trucks and drove through the throng.

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