Up to eleven people have died in Senegal after the roof where football fans were watching a World Cup game collapsed.

The tragedy occurred in Northern Senegal in the town of Matam on Saturday during the Uruguay Vs. South Korea match where a large group of football fans gathered on the roof of a building to watch the match.

APS news agency quoted an emergency services official at the scene of the collapse as saying that at least two other people were injured.

A Senegalese radio also reported that the people had gathered at the roof of the home of a senior member of the national electricity company to watch the World Cup match.

Football is very much loved sport in the African nation, though Senegal were not eligible to reach the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, many soccer fans gather in homes where the owner can afford a TV set.

When Ghana had won the U.S.A on Saturday, the streets of the capital Dakar were filled with celebrating Senegalese football fans.

Senegal’s greatest triumph in the World Cup was when the African nation managed to reach the quarter finals in 2002.

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