Seven people are believed to have died while undergoing a fitness test used to select prospective candidates for traffic officer jobs in South Africa.
The victims were among tens of thousands of applicants competing for 90 provincial traffic officer posts in Pietermaritzburg, in the KwaZulu-Natal Province, according to a report by the state-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation.
More than 35,000 job seekers reportedly applied for the 90 jobs that were up for grabs and around 15,000 people are believed to have taken the physical tests late last week.
The applicants were required to run 2.5miles (4km) in temperatures of more than 30 degrees Celsius.
Some collapsed from dehydration and heat exhaustion and a number received hospital treatment, it was claimed.
The chief transport official for KwaZulu-Natal province, Willies Mchunu, said the tests have now been suspended.
"We will have to check whether adequate medical attention was provided, including medical advice to those who were going to run the four kilometres, which would also include the adequate supply of water," he told the SABC.
South Africa's unemployment rate rose to 25.5% in the third quarter of 2012.
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