A plane carrying 25 South Africans injured in
a building collapse in Nigeria arrived at the Swartkop Air Force Base in
Pretoria this morning. The C130 SA Air Force plane touched down at
10.42am. Three children were among the injured, including an 18-month-old
baby and a two-year-old toddler who lost both their parents in the collapse
that killed 84 South Africans.
It has been a long anxious wait for the
families of those who died or were injured in the Lagos building collapse, but
early on Monday morning families of many of the injured will be reunited with
their loved ones. With varying degrees of injuries, those returning will be
taken to the Steve Biko Hospital for medical assessments before being
discharged or sent to hospitals close to their homes. Most of the patients were
brought out of the plane on stretchers and taken to ambulances parked nearby.
A woman in a red dress, supported by two
soldiers, limped to one of the ambulances. Others could also walk to the
ambulances, with assistance. A convoy of Tshwane metro police officers on
motorbikes and SA Police Service vehicles escorted the first two ambulances
from the military base shortly after 11am. Members of a government
inter-ministerial task force, led by Presidency Minister Jeff Radebe,
approached the plane carrying the 25 injured South Africans after it landed.
Sending love, light, haling and strength to
the patients, their family and friends.
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