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death toll at synagogue church rise to 41

Sep 15 2014 at 02:29am

Lagos - The number of people killed in the collapse of a
guest house under construction at the Lagos headquarters
of Pastor T.B. Joshua church rose to 41 on Sunday,
rescuers said, as they worked to clear the wreckage.
The five-storey building in the Ikotun neighbourhood of
Lagos collapsed on Friday, and Farinloye said some 130
people had been pulled out alive with varying degrees of
injury.
Local media showed a mound of flattened concrete and
twisted steel wires at the compound belonging to the
Synagogue Church of All Nations, which is headed by
Prophet T.B. Joshua, who has followers across Africa and
around the world.
"We have 41 dead now," Ibrahim Farinloye, spokesman in
Lagos for Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA), said.
On Friday after the collapse, members of the church had at
first prevented emergency officials from participating in the
rescue, making it difficult to establish a toll for the dead and
injured. But state rescuers were allowed in on Saturday.
"We're still working at the site," said Farinloye, adding he
expected the clear-up would extend into Monday.
There was no immediate explanation for the collapse.
Eemergency services officials said the lower two floors of
the building located in the large church compound had
already been operating as a guest house, and it appeared
construction work was underway to add three more floors

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