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Preacher dead outside Adelaide hotel

ABC November 3, 2009, 10:26 am
Preacher was found dead at Smithfield

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A man has been found dead outside a hotel at Smithfield in Adelaide's northern suburbs.

Police say the body was found just after 6:00am ACDT at the hotel in Main North Road.

A friend found the body when he arrived to pick the man up for work.

Police say the man suffered a medical episode, but the precise cause is not clear.

He was Pius Bazigiye, 53, a father of seven and grandfather of three, who was a preacher and Burundian community elder.

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