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4        Africa telegraph         25 October - 09 November 2020
                      More than 22 killed in a church                                                                          West Africa News



                                    collapsed in Ghana
                By  Mensa Oti


            Eastern  Region, Ghana -  A six-story
            church building collapsed on 20  Octo-
                                      th
            ber in eastern Ghana, with more than 22
            people killed in the incident.
            The collapsed building  was the site of
            the Church of Prosperity at Akyem Bat-
            abi in the Asene Manso Akroso district.

            Officials say that 11 women, ten men and
            a baby died after an under-construction
            three-storey building  collapsed.       The
            building  was being used for  a  church
            service  during  the fatal incident in the
            Eastern Region of Ghana.

            A  rescue  team  including  emergency
            workers, police, soldiers and firefighters
            were searching for survivors trapped in-
            side the building.

            The number of those missing remains
            unclear, while eight injured people have
            been taken to hospital, according to of-
            ficial reports.

            Akoa Isaac the founder of the Church of   The Founder of the Church
            Prosperity is in the custody of the Bu-  of  Prosperity at  Akyem
            reau of National Investigation (BNI) for   Batabi in the Asene Man-
            investigation  regarding the collapse  of   so Akroso District of the
            the building.                       Eastern  Region  is  in  the
                                                custody of  Akim Oda Di-
            Eyewitness reports, and local news me-  visional Police Command.
            dia confirmed that more than 60 people
            were  at the site of the disaster  in the   ganisation said that the search
            Asene-Manso district when the building   and rescue efforts are still on-
            collapsed.                            going. Meanwhile, residents of
                                                  Akyem Batabi are concerned
            Agyemang Prempeh, a coordinator with   that  the  number  of  casualties
            the National  Disaster Management  Or-  may rise.
















































             The rubble of the collapsed Church of Prosperity building at
                Akyem Batabi in the Asene – Manso – Akroso District
                                in the Eastern Region
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