WEDDING PARTY KILLED
TRAGEDY IN ALGIERS * ONLY BRIDEGROOM SAVED LONDON, Dec. £B. The Daily Mail’s Algiers correspondent reports that while.an Arab wedding was being celebrated in the native quarter of tho city an overhanging cliff which had been undermined by excavations and rains collapsed. The bride and her family, guests, and musicians perished, only the bridegroom being saved. About 50 natives were entombed, but the death roll is uncertain.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 7
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69WEDDING PARTY KILLED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17453, 30 December 1930, Page 7
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