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.
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.
Rescuers on Sunday pushed on with efforts to find more survivors from the rubble of the Angolan police headquarters that collapsed in the capital. The disaster is feared to have claimed seven lives. The national police commissioner said he was optimistic that more people would be found alive.