See The Woman Who Survived 'Synagogue Church Collapse' By Drinking Her Urine

Lindiwe Ndwandwe from South Africa, has recounted her five-day ordeal under the collapsed synagogue church building. The South African revealed that she survived by drinking her urine after she got dehydrated.

Rescue operations had been ongoing for four days when she walked out unaided on the fifth day at about 2 am last week Tuesday, after excavation had been done in the section where she was trapped.

She said: 

“I was about to eat when I decided to visit the restroom. When I was there, I heard this noise and then the ceiling of the toilet came crumbling down.

“I heard people praying but I was alone in that place. I tried to sleep but it was difficult. It was through a hole that I knew whether it was day or night.

“On the third day, I knew they were rescuing people because I stopped hearing the voices of my neighbours.”

“I was trapped in the toilet for five days. I was hungry and thirsty throughout my stay there. I couldn’t even move so I was just lying down because there was no leg or headroom to move around."

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On how she survived, she said: 

“Remember I was about to eat when I decided to visit the rest room. When I was hungry, it was then I started having a conversation with God. Anytime I was hungry or thirsty and I told God, I will just fall asleep. On the fourth day, I was becoming weaker.

“And I was more thirsty. It then occurred to me that the only thing to do was to drink my urine. But I couldn’t even do that because I was lying on my side and the ceiling was hanging over me.

“So I removed my vest from my neck, put it round my legs and urinated on it. The same urine-soaked vest was what I sucked on anytime I got thirsty.”

On how she was rescued, she said she heard two men arguing on whether to dig where she was or not and when they did, she came out alive with a few bruises on her arms.

She said: 

“When I was rescued and I called my husband, the only thing he could say was thank God. I could hear the loud shouts of my family rejoicing in the background.”