• Friday, April 19, 2024
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4 victims rescued as another building collapses in Lagos  

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A three-storey building still undergoing construction, on Friday morning, collapsed in Okota area of Lagos State, with a woman and her three children trapped.

The collapsed building is located at No.12 Alasepe Street, off Community Road, Ago Palace Way, Okota.

Operatives of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), who arrived at the scene, were said to have succeeded in pulling out the victims, alive and conveyed them in an ambulance to a hospital.

The Lagos state fire service just arrived the scene, the search and rescue team is on ground trying to rescue the trapped person in the building, and are not willing to talk.

The trapped person is still alive. His name is Bobo, a male, as he just responded to voice call.

 

JOSHUA BASSEY