Church Collapse in Uyo, Nigeria, Kills More Than 150 Worshipers: Hospital

NBC news ^ | December 11, 2016

[SMGFan]

Metal girders and the roof of a crowded church collapsed onto worshipers in southern Nigeria, killing at least 160 people with the toll likely to rise, a hospital director said Sunday. Mortuaries in the city of Uyo are overflowing from Saturday's tragedy, medical director Etete Peters of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital told The Associated Press. The Reigners Bible Church International was still under construction and workers had been rushing to finish it in time for Saturday's ceremony to ordain founder Akan Weeks as a bishop, congregants said.

[SMGFan]

Just damn, R.I.P.

"Buildings collapse often in Nigeria because of endemic corruption with contractors using sub-standard materials and bribing inspectors to ignore shoddy work or a lack of building permits. "

[HypatiaTaught]

I remember when many people died when they made their pilgrimage to Mecca a couple years back...

And now this?

I guess for both cases, one can say God’s will.

[Neoliberalnot]

If this is real, God heal them, and rest the souls of the victims.

[BRL]

i hope this building was not constructed by a USA based mission team

[SoFloFreeper]

so sad. Prayers up for these brothers and sisters in Christ.

[JimSEA]

It seems the church’s founder and his design/construction are at fault rather than the usual Muslim terrorist found in large numbers in that beleaguered nation.

[Gamecock]

2And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

[Gamecock]

Amen

[BenLurkin]

Astonishing