Aerials of shopping centre roof collapse

Описание: (21 Dec 2001)

1. Wide of Kolonnade Shopping Centre with fire truck in front
2. Mid of emergency workers on fire truck ladder above the collapsed roof
3. Various of collapsed roof
4. Emergency workers on ladder looking over collapsed roof
5. Various of collapsed roof
6. Emergency workers coming down on ladder
7. Emergency workers walking with sniffer dogs
8. Rescue worker
9. Two rescue workers treating a sniffer dog with an injured leg
10. Wide of scene
11. SOUNDBITE (English): Gerna Van Rooyen, marketing manager, Kolonnade Shopping Centre:
"Well, at the moment the centre has been secured and closed. What will happen is that we need to close the actual area that has been affected, close that off, make sure that it is stable, enough for the emergency teams, the consulting teams, the structural engineers to go in and try and assess what caused it and the extent of the damage and so forth."
12. Wide of emergency workers gathered outside the centre
13. Various emergency workers waiting with dogs outside shopping mall
14. Emergency worker enters mall with dog
15. Wide of workers gathered outside entrance of mall
16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andre Pruis, Deputy National Police Commissioner:
"I think the way in which they have handled the scene is really handling a disaster management scene by text book, they cordoned off a perimeter, established a medical post, they cordoned off the outer perimeter. They evacuated the building then they saw to it that everything is safe inside. They eventually started to control people and get people out of the scene outside."
17. Wide shots of shopping mall with firefighters on ladder over collapsed roof

STORYLINE:

Investigators are trying to discover what caused part of a busy shopping centre in South Africa's capital to collapse onto an ice rink crowded with children.

Broken and bent metal were viewed by officials and inspectors on Friday as Pretoria began counting the cost of Thursday's disaster in which dozens of people were injured, including two infants.

Many of the injured were hurt when a glass wall at the rink shattered.

Rescue teams with sniffer dogs confirmed there was no-one trapped under the rubble.

A police dog was injured while searching the building.

South Africa's Deputy National Police Commander described the rescue effort as a "textbook" operation.

The Kolonnade Shopping Centre will remain closed until engineers can stabilise the damaged section of the building.

It is still not clear what caused the 25-square-metre section of the ceiling above the ice rink to collapse.

The section was newly constructed and opened in October.

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