The government has donated GHC200,000 to 30 families of the victims in the collapse of a church building at Akyem Batabi in the Eastern Region.
Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia made the donation on behalf of the government.
He said the government would also bear the hospital costs of the eight people who survived the incident.
Dr Bawumia expressed the government’s sympathy to the families of the 22 people so far known to have perished in the collapse of the church building.
Rescue operation ends
Meanwhile, a search-and-rescue operation at the collapsed church building has come to an end.
Rescue workers combed through rubble as they searched for 62 worshippers said to have been praying in the five-storey, uncompleted building at the time of its collapse on Tuesday (20 October 2020).
Hopes of anxious relatives of the victims have been dashed as a stench has begun to rise from the rubble.
Full investigation
Officials say a full-blown investigation will be conducted to ascertain the cause of the accident and bring those responsible to book.
The death toll stands at 22 out of 30 people rescued from the rubble of the Church of Prosperity.
Rescue workers continued to comb through the rubble overnight.
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