Mail & Guardian NEWS OPINION BUSINESS ARTS & CULTURE EDUCATION SCI-TECH MULTIMEDIA SPECIAL REPORTS IN THE PAPER ZAPIRO PARTNERS NEWS NATIONAL AFRICA WORLD ENVIRONMENT SPORT HEALTH DATA AMABHUNGANE National Nigeria church collapse bodies returned to SA 16 NOV 2014 10:12 SAPA Only 74 of the 85 bodies of the South Africans killed in the Nigerian church collapse have arrived the Waterkloof Air Force Base. A formal reception ceremony would be held at the site where the remains would be received. (Reuters) Only 74 of the 85 bodies expected to be repatriated to South Africa will be leaving Nigeria on Saturday, the department of communications said. “We can confirm that we depart with 74 South Africans,” spokeswoman Phumla Williams said in a statement. “On arrival in South Africa, the families will be able to receive their loved ones to take them to their final ancestral resting places.” The remains of the 81 South Africans who died over two months ago in a church building collapse were expected to be returned from Nigeria on Sunday morning. A total of 116 people died on September 12, when a guest house belonging to the Synagogue Church Of All Nations in Lagos - headed by preacher TB Joshua - collapsed. “We later established that three of these were Zimbabweans and one from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) who travelled with the South African group to Nigeria,” said Williams Twenty-six injured South Africans were repatriated a month ago. Twenty
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