Imtiaz Sooliman – Victoria Street tragedy address the 72hour rule
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The conversation is difficult to follow and appears to be a discussion of a disaster in a Catholic Church. There is speculation that people may not be returning to work until they see people missing, and that there may be a lot of people missing. The speakers express uncertainty and fear, but hope that the situation will be resolved.
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Alira de beer from the George bureau
with Doctor India. Suleiman, the head of gift of the givers here at
the disaster site. Doctor Suleiman, have you been briefed on
the situation? And will you please have your comment on Well,
we've seen far worse, bigger situations in other parts of the
world. I don't follow the 72 hour rule because I've we've twice.
We've taken our people alive on day 880,
on the 20th of January, 2010
but that is a collapsed Catholic Church. It wasn't a five story.
But while saying that, on the 13th of February last year, we took out
a 90 year old grandmother in a 12 study, historically, that's
totally can take an eight days later we took out, while saying
that I strongly believe that they don't have much opportunity or
chance to take anybody else out now, for several reasons. One is
the stuffed dogs are not taking absent of like people anymore, and
that's been happening from late yesterday. Secondly, and the
biggest problem is that people are trapped under 3000
tons of concrete.
There was hope for those living who were caught up in the
basement, because that's where our dogs picked up for livelihood on
early hours of Tuesday morning. But it doesn't seem now that
there's anybody else we can be wrong, and now, because of the
bodies starting to decompose, getting confused, always
atmosphere, but that's becoming a problem. He finally made alive,
because even
the ones that came out alive,
many of them were severely indigenous. But severely
I think 16 of them were in
a clinical condition.
So I don't know. But also, we have to be part of the following. But
also,
we've seen that the
operation is moving from using small equipment. Every machinery
is coming this afternoon, that's demolition,
which, in other words, sending the message that this the respite
phase is over. We now go in a recovery phase, and the priority
is to move all that problem. There's no guarantee what we will
find and how many people will find. The figures, it may be a bit
of a problem. Today I see somebody say it's gone up to 44 missing. I
don't know how far that is true. Nobody will really know. The only
way we will know is if all the family members come here to this
wall and say, my loved one is missing, that's the only way you
would find the exact number of people missing after you suspect
what we found already, whether passed on or alive,
and commonly on a building site growing from history of builders.
A lot of people don't turn up for work on a Monday. No, they and
they define some excuse for this, and especially you for a
nationally maybe swing fire. I've seen it so many time in my own
work situation, you know, where people just don't come to work on
a Monday. And it's possible, and maybe any since it was two
o'clock, it's possible at one o'clock lunch time, they're gonna
take a walk somewhere. You know, it's just, this is all
speculation, but hopefully that happened, and hopefully less
people came to work on Monday, because nobody's exactly going to
know, oh, the amount, the amount of people, because they're a
contractor, a subcontractor, and yet somebody else. So nobody knows
the exact figure. You know, I'm not sure if they kept proper
account for how many people were working there for each
subcontractor, I am praying silently that a lot of people were
away from work at lunchtime on Monday. And as I said, the only
way that we'll really know definitely is to go into the hall
where the families are waiting and ask who's missing. That will
probably the only way we'll get exactly that.