At least five people have been confirmed dead in a building that collapsed in the early hours of Thursday at 13 Wilson Mba Street Arowojobe Estate Maryland, Lagos.
It was gathered that the building was under construction before it caved in and killed the construction workers in the site.
Aside from the five people already confirmed dead, many others also sustained varying degrees of injuries when the two-storey building caved in around the Maryland axis of Lagos State.
It was gathered that the five deceased brought out under the rubbles were male who were trapped under the ill-fated building.
Residents in the area said the deceased were artisans engaged by the owners of the building to carry out construction works.
Confirming the tragic incident, the permanent secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu said search and rescue operation was still ongoing at the scene of the collapse.
He said, “The agency received a distress call regarding a collapsed building at the above address at about 3:49 a.m. This prompted the immediate activation of the agency’s response team to the scene of the incident at 3:58 a.m.
“The first three victims that were rescued were taken to Gbagada General Hospital while another two victims that were rescued by the emergency officials were ferried to the Trauma Center at Gbagada after being stabilised.
‘In all, the five adult male victims that were recovered dead have been handed over to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, SEHMU, for further processing”.
