Interior Minister, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, has confirmed the demise of three persons from the three-storey building that collapsed at Accra New Town on Sunday, March 29, 2026.
Twenty other victims inside the facility at the time of the collapse have also been hospitalised.
Residents and bystanders rushed to the scene immediately after the collapse around 1pm on Sunday, during church service, attempting to rescue victims. They, together with worshipers, were using their bare hands and basic tools for the rescue operation before the arrival of emergency responders.
Addressing the media at the site of the collapse on Monday, March 30, 2026, the Minister noted that the various emergency responders have all given their account and confirmed a total of 23 persons at the facility at the time the incident occurred.
“We’ve gotten the Fire Service to do their account of what they were able to do, we’ve gotten the police, NADMO, Ambulance to give their account and we’ve put all the information together, and what we can say is that, there was a total of 23. Unfortunately we lost three,” the Minister noted.
He explained further that “the three that we lost are a male and two females.”
Meanwhile, the remaining 20 victims, according to Mohammed-Mubarak, are receiving treatment at various health facilities, including the Police Hospital, 37 Military Hospital, Mamobi Polyclinic and a private facility.
He also disclosed that there were 15 females among the 23 people who were inside the building, with 8 males. “Out of this we have minors that are 7 but those who have lost their lives, there is no minor. They are all adults,” the Interior Minister added.
The Minister was confident that there were no humans remaining in the rubble due to the checks that had been conducted by both police and the Narcotics Control Commission’s K-9 dogs.
“We brought in the police K-9 dogs, we brought in the narcotics control commission’s K9 dogs and then the military to be sure there is no semblance of other persons trapped in there.
“For now, with what the dogs have done, what the military have crosschecked, we can say with some 90 – 95% certainty that we do not have any other persons in, meaning that largely, the rescue is coming to an end.”
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