The
bodies of a couple, a baby and three others, have been pulled out a
three-storey building that collapsed in Lagos on Thursday morning.
The
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that six persons had also been rescued
from the building on 29b Oloto St., off Cemetery Road, Ebute Metta, which
collapsed at 2:00 a.m. on Thursday.
Mr
Ibrahim Farinloye, spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA), South-West, told NAN that the agency got information that the building
started cracking at about 1:30 a:m. and finally gave way at about 2:00 a.m.
Farinloye
confirmed that six people had been brought out dead, while six others were
rescued and taken to hospitals with minor injuries.
NAN
reports that emergency workers were still combing the debris for whoever might
be trapped.
NAN
reports that officials of the Nigerian Police, Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps, Red Cross, NEMA, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency
(LASEMA), the state Fire Service, as well as youths in the area, were helping
out,
A
rescued resident of the building, Miss Dalikis Abdulamid, 23, told NAN that she
was at the balcony of the second floor when the incident happened.
She
said that her mother and her four siblings were also rescued, but had been
taken to hospital.
According
to her, they had been noticing cracks in the walls of their rooms, but that
their father used to patch these up with cement.
``We
did not know that the building will collapse. By about 2:00 a.m., when the
building came down, some of our co-tenants were trapped, while some were
dead,’’ she said.
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