Men building a granary store in Western Equatoria State. Photo Credit: Curtesy.

A girl of one year has died after a grain store collapsed in Gangura Payam of Western Equatoria State.

A family member said a heavy downpour around accompanied by a violent storm triggered the deadly incident, reportedly weakening the poles of the granary and leading to its collapse.

“What happened yesterday is people were under the granary store, after it collapsed, a child died and four other people are still alive,” Arcangelo Musura who is the girl’s uncle told Eye Radio on phone.

The incident which occurred Friday in Nambiri village of Yambio County also left the girl’s grandmother injured.
The deceased toddler is identified as Adia Micheline.

Her grandmother Hellen Donato, 50, sustained injuries on the leg while three others survived the building collapse.

“The only person who got injured is the grandmother of the child. The name of the child [deceased] is Adia Micheline and she was one year and eight months.

“So the grandmother is 50-year-old and what happened to her is she got injuries on the leg and she is in the hospital. She is still somehow.”

Donato is currently receiving treatment at Yambio State Hospital.

Granary stores are used for keeping farm produce by many communities in Western Equatoria.

Such storage facilities are locally built with mud and roofed with grass which is also used as verandah.

In September 2017, a woman in her 70s also died after a granary store warped on her in the Baguga area of Yambio County.