South African minister, Jeff Radebe today Sept. 22nd, said that
the death toll from the Synagogue building collapse has risen to 115.
Radebe said this at an airforce base, North of Johannesburg in South
Africa where 25 South Africans who were injured in the collapsed building
were brought home in a military C-130 aircraft (pictured above) for treatment. He
however maintained that 84 South Africans died in the tragedy.
"We
understand from our assessment team that the total number of people who
have perished is now 115, but those are not all South Africans. South
Africans are about 84 that have died" Jeff Radebe told reporters.
The
Nigerian Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, put the death toll from
the collapse at 86.
