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Heavy duty equipment and machinery are seen at the premises of the collapsed church in Uyo, Nigeria. Photoo Credit: Reuters

 

Nigeria rushed plastic surgeons and other specialists on Monday to a city in the south to treat more than one hundred people injured when a church collapsed in one of the worst recent building accidents in the West African country.

“We … raised a team of experts to come to Uyo and render a helping hand and bring succor to the weak, the sick and those who are in dire need of complicated surgery,” Suleiman Giwa, head of the surgeons, told reporters at Uyo’s biggest hospital.

Two residents have told Reuters that at least 100 people were killed in the collapse in Uyo during a service on Saturday. Officials have said the death toll is around 32. Some 115 people were injured, according to emergency agency NEMA.

Buildings collapses occur frequently in Nigeria and are often blamed on lack of construction permits and the use of cheap materials. Critics have said that authorities tend to understate the death toll at such accidents.

“It was by His grace that I am alive today,” said Grace Okonita, a mother of four who survived the collapse. “I lost one leg and my hand is broken.”

 

Source: Reuters

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