Conflicting casualty figures have continued to trail the Uyo Church building collapse which occurred on Saturday during a special ordination service of the Bishop of the church, Bishop Akan Weeks.

In attendance was the state governor, Emmanuel Udom, who escaped death by whiskers, and hundreds of worshipers.

The host, Bishop Akan Weeks, also escaped the accident with with injuries according to a twitter photo obtained by Concise News on Monday.

But while many media outlets including CNN, Aljazeera and Punch are reporting death toll, based on their findings, to range from 160 – 200, the state government is insisting that casualty figures is just 26.

Meanwhile, the Chief Medical Director of the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Prof. Etete Peters had earlier told news men including the Associated Press that over 160 corpses from the accident have been deposited in the mortuary.

The state government, however, issued a statement on Wednesday claiming that many of the people that were thought dead were later resuscitated.

Read full story here: www.concisenews.global/news/church-collapse-is-govt-trying-to-cover-up-the-actual-death-toll.

Op nt tru. CMD said 24 bodies in d mog.

wh things of diz nature occurs people must talk. plz let go with d authority figure for now. very soon it ll b open.