Families affected by the Joburg fire wait in agony at the mortuary, hoping to identify their loved ones amidst tears and prayers.
As more bodies were moved to the Forensic Pathology Service Diepkloof mortuary, distant cries could be heard coming from outside, as families waited to identify their loved ones, some still praying to find them still alive.
Mathebula said on Thursday morning while they were preparing for work, her husband Phillip saw the news and immediately called his brothers to help him with the search since her daughter was not answering the phone. “This is already traumatic. Imagine having to now wait for the identification process or even the biometric and DNA process. We will never find rest until we can lay them to rest.”“But before any of that, we are still praying they are still alive somewhere, that maybe we missed them through the whole process, and they were probably just injured and in hospital.”
“We can’t sit in the house, we can’t just sit and cry the whole day. It only makes sense that we do something, or am I wrong?” she asked as she continued to wipe the tears off her face.
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