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The Embassy of Israel on Wednesday said an Israeli plane equipped with a team of disaster management experts and doctors are on their way to Ghana to assist with efforts to rescue trapped Ghanaians under rubble of collapsed building.
In a statement issued in Accra, the Embassy said following the disastrous collapse of the Melcom building in Achimota this morning; the Israeli Ambassador offered Israeli's assistance in dealing with the disaster
“An offer that was gratefully accepted by Ghana... An Israeli jet plane was quickly scrambled, on board a team of professionals with highly advance equipment, and is planned to land as early as tonight.
“The Israeli team will consist of disaster management experts, medical doctors with trauma expertise and rescue specialists. The equipment would include emergency medical equipment, rescue (for example pneumatic scissors) and monitoring equipment.
“Israel is always one of the first to react in situations of disaster management around the world,” the statement stated.
Early Wenesday morning an altramodern five-storey building commissioned barely a year ago collapsed whiles over 50 workers were trapped under the rubbles.
The tragedy occured at about 9am the time workers were having their morning devotion.
it is beleived that although the shop was not officially opened to customrs,some early patrons who made it there at the time were also victims of the disaster,living the total number of people trapped under not specific.
Several efforts from various rescue teams in the country including the Ghana Armed Forces, National Disaster for Management Organisation(NADMO), Zoomlion Task Force among other individual corporate institution to help in the rescue operation but still people were trapped under the building.
Out of the 48 people who were reportedly rescued from the rubble four have been confirmed dead. Several others still remain under the collapsed six-storey building.
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