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In this hand photo
supplied by the government's Department's of Communications (DoC) one of four
Forensic Pathology Services truck carrying the remains of some of the victims
of the Nigeria building collapse, exits a chartered plane on its arrival from
Nigeria, in Pretoria, South Africa, at the Waterkloof Air Force base Sunday,
Nov. 16, 2014. The remains of 74 South Africans who died in the building
collapse on Sept. 12, 2014 arrived back in South Africa ahead of a ceremony at
which the names of the dead were read to mourners. (AP Photo/Department of
Communications)
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A plane carrying the remains of 74 South Africans
who died in a building collapse in Nigeria on Sept. 12 arrived on Sunday in
South Africa.
AP reports the plane landed at Waterkloof air force base near
Pretoria, the South African capital, ahead of a ceremony at which the names of
the dead were read to mourners, including family members and government
officials. Some relatives wept during the somber event.
The "gruesome nature" of the accident had
made it difficult to identify victims and DNA tests had to be conducted, the
government said in a statement.
South Africa said 81 South Africans were among a
total of 116 people who died in the building collapse.
The fallen multistory building served as a shopping
mall and guesthouse at the sprawling complex of televangelist T.B. Joshua's
Synagogue, Church of All Nations, on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria's
commercial capital.
Nigerian officials had attributed the cause of the
accident to shoddy construction. The church tried to implicate Islamic
militants, releasing a video that purported to show a mysterious aircraft
flying low over the building before it fell.
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