A very sad day for TNZ

On Friday morning a building next to the mosque collapsed. I first heard about it from Marina since she got a message that they weren’t going to the mosque in the evening due to the collapse. It was all over the news later that day. The building collapsed right where children were playing. It was a construction site and the building wasn’t ready yet, but they didn’t build it strong enough.

Four kids were still stuck inside. In the evening we heard that until four in the afternoon they heard noises coming from inside. After four, it became silent. The children had been there the whole day in the heat, crushed somewhere under rubble. On Saturday morning two of them were found, dead. Two of them are still missing, but the hope of finding them alive has fainted. There’s a funeral held for the two boys found today.

One boy was there with his brothers, but luckily he ran out to get a football during the collapse so he got out, but his brothers were the ones stuck inside.  Later found dead. The collapse happened very fast and many cars around were crushed.

One man went to buy something real quick just around the corner and left his wife and kid in the car. When he came back, the car was already crushed with his wife and child inside. We still don't know the number of people that actually have died. Some were hurried to the hospital, but the search for survivors still goes on. It’s a very sad day for Dar es Salaam and everyone is still in shock. 

Maybe they learn something from this. Maybe from now on they will check the materials used more carefully and supervise that buildings are built properly. They only had a permit to build a nine story building, but they went for 16 (during collapse it had 12 stories). So there you go. 

For more information, videos and pictures please visit 

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/29/17517633-rescuers-dig-for-survivors-after-12-story-building-collapses-in-tanzania?lite

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21980028 (with pictures and video material)

My heart goes out to the mothers of the children still missing and to all those families that lost someone due to the collapse, which I think could have been avoided by respecting some permits and rules.