Unity House goes down |20 March 2007

First to attack was a chain-wheeled machine that was armed with a giant vibrating hammer that sounded like a machine gun, which pecked at the building’s walls.

On the rubble soon rolled another machine which struck the now-exposed upper floors of the building with a giant hoe with which it pulled down more broken concrete and mangled reinforcement steel wires amid a huge hail of dust.

Erected in 1975, the building was condemned as unsuitable for use, and the Seychelles Pension Fund who has leased the land on which the office block stood intends to re-develop the property.