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Nigeria building collapse: Military personnel swiftly attend to injured South Africans─── 11:52 Mon, 22 Sep 2014
Pretoria - Military personnel on Monday morning swiftly attended to South Africans injured in the Nigeria church building collapse.
Shortly after the SA Air Force plane carrying them landed at the Swartkop Air Force Base in Pretoria, an initial batch of the patients was whisked off to hospital.
Most were brought out of the plane on stretchers and taken to ambulances parked nearby.
A convoy of Tshwane metro police officers on motorbikes and SA Police Service vehicles escorted the first two ambulances from the military base shortly after 11am.
Maryke Vermaak explains where the patients will head to next.
Members of a government inter-ministerial task force, led by presidency Minister Jeff Radebe, are also at the airforce base.
Members of a government inter-ministerial task force, led by presidency Minister Jeff Radebe, are also at the airforce base.
Three children are among the injured, including an 18-month-old baby and a two-year-old toddler who lost both their parents in the collapse that killed 84 South Africans.
JacarandaFM; additional reporting by Sapa
