With help from Jehovah’s Witnesses, National Police forces yesterday detained three young men who were supposed to have spread the toxic substance that led to their demise.

More than 400 faithful of Jehovah’s Witnesses Church collapsed yesterday during the opening ceremony of the annual congress of this religious congregation that takes place in the temple of Viana, in Luanda, when inhaling toxic substance. The deaths occurred at 9 o’clock, with some women among the seven thousand faithful who came to the compound (with capacity for 11 thousand souls) for the purpose of attending the congress that will end tomorrow.

 

Abraham Kituxi, one of the eyewitnesses, revealed that one of the first people to go unconscious and fell unconscious was a sister-in-law, that is, the Magui who was immediately referred to the Cazenga municipal hospital, where she was assisted. “Before, she had said she was feeling uncomfortable with an unpleasant smell and I assumed it would have been some of the garbage from the solid waste collection trucks that passed near the temple,” he said. Even so, when he passed out, he did not take it too seriously, thinking that it is one of those crises that afflict him when he inhales some very active smell, and regardless of chemical composition, he recovers easily.

But his deduction fell to the ground as he suddenly saw other people occupying the last seats next to Magui, complaining of the same annoyance, others even falling in a cascade.The fact married a generalized panic among the community that attended the talk about the theme “do not give up”. Those who resisted complained of chest pains and the people nearby asked for water to drink. Those in charge of the congregation immediately called on the police and firefighters who sent four ambulances and three patrolmen who joined the faithful evacuating the patients in private vehicles to the nearest health facilities, such as the Cazenga Municipal Hospital and the Cajueiros Hospital.

Police arrested alleged offenders

The toxic product that triggered the situation will have been spread by a group presumably consisting of seven individuals of legal age, three of whom are already in police custody.After some of their attempts were made, some went to one of the changing rooms to change their clothes so as not to be recognized, but for their great bad luck, the ominous odor provoked the same reaction to the faithful who performed the protocol service To the entrance of these enclosures.

“One of the accused was detained in one of the changing rooms, the other trying to enter one of the ladies’ bathrooms with the same purpose and the third to cross the gate,” said Manuel Ricardo, another eyewitness. All did not display the badges that were distributed to the participants in the event by the organization, and one of them was carrying a folder containing several pieces of clothing. The toxic substance that caused the fainting, whose chemical composition has not yet been determined, was in containers of 750 thousand liters of different colors, spread in strategic places, already in the possession of the experts of the Provincial Service of Criminal Investigation of Luanda and the Central Laboratory of Criminalistics.

Demarcations of fainting in schools

The clinical director of the Cazenga Municipal Hospital, Panda Dombaixi, revealed to the OPAIS that of the 45 patients who attended, aged over 15 years, some complained of shortness of breath, chest pain and had purple eyes. Most were recovered in the hospital yard and those who appeared to be in a more serious condition were delivered to the ward.“Clinically they were not worrisome because some patients were recovering as they talked to the medical staff. Some even only with exposure to natural oxygen, “he explained.

The doctor Panda Dombaixi also explained that this occurrence is not associated with the faints that occurred in the schools, although the real causes still have to be ascertained.“Usually when mass faints occur, it is almost always associated with a gas, because this product disperses easily in the air. We just can not accurately state what kind of gas they have inhaled, but they will have inhaled, “he said. 

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