Imtiaz Sooliman – Victoria Street tragedy address the 72hour rule

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.