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Seychelles pays tribute to former DJ Burka

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Family, friends and former colleagues of Daniel Burka, a former Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation employee known as DJ Burka, paid their final respects at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The ceremony was held on Friday in the Seychelles, according to the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation.

The family, friends and former colleagues of Daniel Burka, a former employee of the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), gathered on Friday at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to pay their final respects. Daniel Burka was known in the Seychelles as DJ Burka, according to the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation.

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