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Durban mosque collapses

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Worshippers have been left stunned after the roof of a mosque collapsed after their afternoon prayers at Verulam, north of Durban.

Moulana Abed Ahmed Khan the leader of the Verulam Mosque north of Durban, says they are relieved there were no fatalities or serious injuries when the mosque’s roof collapsed on Monday afternoon.

One person was taken to hospital after he sustained minor injuries and three others were treated at the scene for minor scratches.

The roof collapsed minutes after the worshippers had finished their prayer.

Moulana Abed Ahmed Khan says they are awaiting engineers to assess whether it is safe to continue using parts of the Mosque:

“Engineers are checking the whole structure, the structure engineers, civil engineers and they are also trying to ascertain what was the problem. There was no signs, there was no warnings there was no crack it was just a hot day. We’ve had those few storms, but there was nothing wrong with the Mosque.”

Meanwhile, Moulana Abed Ahmed’s wife who did not want to give her name, says she is very disturbed by the incident:

“I am very shaken up, I’m quite traumatised actually I’m very thankful to the almighty that my husband is safe and everybody else is safe in the Mosque all the worshippers are safe. Well it was very traumatising, it’s shocking to see something like this happening and you don’t understand how it happened, there is no explanation to it. We ran towards the back and we could just see things falling and we could hear screaming from the Musjid, from the Mosque, we could hear screaming sounds and we didn’t know whether it’s going to happen to us we were not sure whether the roof was going to be falling on us.”

 

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