One of the
survivors of the collapsed building of
the Synagogues Church of All Nations, a
South African named Khathuatshelo Ramovha was in the rubbles for 13 hours
before he got rescued.
Khathuatshelo
who spoke to BBC says he would have been dead but was saved by a table which
upturned on him.
Below is his testimony:
Immediately
when I want to start to eat, I just felt like something like a blast on the
wall. I can’t explain what it is. It made a small sound; something like a wired
bomb, so quick and the building was coming down. So I lost my consciousness.
After probably 30 minutes or about an hour I woke up.
When I woke
up, I saw rubbles, so dark, no oxygen, nothing.
People were screaming, people were praying, people were crying; my leg,
my head. I was not feeling any pain. I was under the table for hours which my
food was on top before the incident. I was under that table. Surely it is that
table that saved me because when the rubble came down, it touched that table
and I was under it. Probably if it touches me first, it will crush me.
I heard a
very loud sound that broke the rubbles. They were able to get inside. When they
take it out they scream; are there people there. We said yes we are here. You
alive? Yes we are alive. They told us to crawl through the hole they made. And
we crawled. The first lady crawled, 2nd, 3rd, I was the first male. All the
first three persons were female and then they took me out
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