The Provincial Minister and the Mayor attend the worship |
The bus crashed and ripped |
population Kolwezienne has sat with emotion on Monday, October 25 at the burial of 11 bodies of victims of a serious traffic accident occurred last Friday at the entrance to the town of Kolwezi.
partial coffins |
Friday October 22, 2010, around 8:00, the big bus company FALCON back to full speed in Kolwezi sixty workers in enterprises MUMI ( Mu tanda Mi ning) and Bazano. The routine trip turns to tragedy when Falcon faces against a heavily loaded truck beer. All the right flank of the bus is ripped, passenger seats are uncovered: the irrevocable had happened to those workers who were returning from work mining night. There are onsite some dead, others will give up the ghost in hospitals Mwangeji and Gecamines. The final toll was 11 killed and over thirty wounded. The whole city was in turmoil, and the comments come from all sides.
The Mayor, Mrs Jinga Cime, convened the same day the Security Council, bringing together city officials and heads of companies involved in the accident. The first thing the mayor has asked the proven business is to first hold a funeral worthy of such workers died in the service. Following the problem said Madam Mayor, would be examined by the competent bodies (Inspection of Labour, Justice, etc..).
This Monday so that, in the pouring rain, Kolwezi whole has lead to their final resting bodies of the 11 injured Friday. The cult funeral was celebrated in the Temple Methodist Quarter Mutoshi before a large crowd and in the presence of the Mayor of the City of Provincial Minister of Mines, Mr. Juvenal Kitungwa and patrons of Business and MUMI Bazano.
Patterns of Mumia and Bazano |
screams, tears, fading of some family members, jostling marked the beginning of the ceremony when, one after another, coffins are brought into the church. Worship is chaired by the Superintendent. Various speeches were delivered funeral. The Director General and Director MUMI Technical Group Bazano, Marcel LENG lamented the sudden loss of people died in the prime of life and assured bereaved families that they will not be abandoned to their fate.
Most victims were young people whose age varies between 27 and 37 years .
They dreamed of a quiet weekend, but the death they encountered on their journey. The mining town of Kolwezi tries to heal its wounds, to dry her tears and hope that all these young people and other anonymous regularly engulfs the earth in her womb did not die for nothing. Alain Ket Kalenda