Collapsing church building injures worker

 SECTION of a Methodist Church building under construction collapsed at Sakaman in Accra yesterday, leaving one person seriously injured.
  The identity of the injured person had not been established at the time of filing this report.
When the Daily Graphic reached the scene around 4pm, the building had been surrounded by the police, while a number of residents had also thronged the area to see  the building.
A neighbour, who gave her name as Auntie Lizzy, said she was at home at 2 p.m when she heard the noise of a collapsing building.
“When I saw that it was the church building close to my house, I got scared and ran out with the fear that it might come to my house,” she said.
According to Auntie Lizzy, about four people were then working on the roofing but she saw that one had fallen from the top.
She said the man, apparently a carpenter, was immediately rushed to the hospital, while the others remained there.
Auntie Lizzy, who claimed to have stayed in the community for about 30 years, said the incident was the third with regard to that building.
In the first and second instances, the church members demolished the building themselves because they realised that it had some defects.
However, some of the church members who came around said the portion that collapsed was being constructed as rain gutter meant to collect water whenever it rained. 
Others also said engineers in the church had marked out some pillars to be replaced.
The Dansoman Police District Commander, DSP Susan Adjei, stated that the police responded to a call that the building had collapsed and indicated that investigations would be carried out to find the cause of the incident.