South Africa evacuates 74 Synagogue corpses

IN a remarkable style, the government of the Republic of South Africa, yesterday, took back home 66 embalmed bodies of victims of the September 12 Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, building collapse.
The identified bodies, which had been under the care of the Lagos State government at the mortuaries of the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, and Isolo General Hospital, Isolo, were part of the 80 victims from Nigeria and neighbouring countries who lost their lives in the incident that is undergoing a coroner’s inquest.
As early as 4am, an entourage of South African government officials, medical and health workers, military and plain clothes security personnel, among others, began takingpossession of the bodies at the Mainland Hospital morgue and Isolo General Hospital, from a special medical team set up by the Lagos government.
It was gathered that the high-powered entourage, estimated to number over 100, touched down shortly before midnight at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos in a South African Airways passenger aircraft.
Soon thereafter, a South African Airways cargo plane landed at the airport, bearing a comprehensive shipment of incident response equipment that included four state-of- the-art refrigerated mass disaster, four pick-up vans, waste disposal trucks, collapsible air-conditioned tents, refuse bins, trolleys, body bags, generators, Personnel Protective Equipment, PPEs, etc.
When Sunday Vanguard arrived the morgue of the Mainland Hospital around 7am yesterday, it was a beehive of activities as not less than 50 members of the South African retrieval team were on ground.