The death toll from the collapse of a police squad headquarters in Angola’s capital this weekend rose to 30 on Tuesday as rescuers scoured the rubble for bodies, state media said. Another 145 people pulled out of the debris are still receiving treatment in several hospitals in Luanda.
Rescuers have found six more bodies buried under a collapsed police building in the Angolan capital, Luanda, bringing the death toll to 21, the head of the civil protection service said on Monday. He said 147 people were rescued from the ruins of the national criminal investigation department building in Luanda.
Angolan rescuers brought out seven more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed police criminal investigation headquarters, bringing the death toll to 15, state media said on Monday. The victims — all women — were found in the women’s detection unit which was the worst hit when the seven-storey building collapsed in the capital Luanda.
More than 10 000 people have been forced from their homes and two thousand makeshift houses swept away by floods after heavy rain pounded parts of southern Angola. Some of those displaced were being put up in tents at makeshift camps while others were being housed in schools.
