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| TB Joshua, behind the collapsed building |
Followers of a controversial preacher and televangelist prevented rescue
workers from getting to victims of a collapsed building in Lagos last week, in
an accident that claimed the lives of at least 84 people, according to a
Nigerian official.
Nigerian Emergency Management Agency said Friday that lives were lost as a
result of church officials preventing workers from rescuing people trapped
inside the multi-storey shopping mall and hotel in the port city.NEMA’s spokesman Ibrahim Farinloye told the Associated Press that the building collapsed at 12:44pm on September 12, but emergency responders did not get full access to the site until two days later.
Described as a megachurch, the building was linked to Temitope Balogun Joshua, better known as TB Joshua.
