Some of the injured were treated and released, while others remain in hospitals for further treatment.
A bus carrying mourners returning from the funeral of 13 people who died after a church building collapsed in Empangeni overturned on Sunday, leaving 52 people injured.
“We would like to commend our KZN health Emergency Medical Services staff for stabilising and transporting these patients, and the doctors and nurses at Ceza and Nkonjeni hospitals, who received them and swiftly provided medical attention. We dispatched seven Intermediate Life Support Paramedics, six Basic Life Support paramedics, two Emergency Support Vehicles, and one rescue response vehicle to the scene.
The accident happened late Thursday when a brick wall under a makeshift roof collapsed during a service at the Pentecostal church in a converted hangar, in the town of Ndlangubo, north of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal province. Provincial police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele: “The congregants were sleeping in the building after the church service ended just after 10pm.
Pastor PY Sibiya told AFP: “There was no network so I just ran to the police station and called the police, they responded very quickly and they helped us.”“Right now, I cannot believe what has happened. I still have not recovered from the shock and so are our colleagues . They are still calling me, they are still sending messages as if something is going to change.”
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