3 Storey Building Collapses, 12 Trapped Victims Feared Dead

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

Tragedy struck on Thursday morning in Lagos after a three-storey building under construction collapsed and reportedly trapped about 12 victims who were feared dead.

P.M.EXPRESS gathered that the incident happened at about midnight while the victims were said to be sleeping inside the uncompleted building at K Farm Fagba off Iju Road area of Lagos.

This was confirmed by the Chief Executive Officer of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu.

He said, “This is just to inform you that a three-storey building collapsed at K Farm, Fagba, Off Iju Road. It was a building under construction.
The victims there have been evacuated and the injured were taken to hospital and they were responding to treatment”.

Oke-Osanyintolu said there was no record of death contrary to the views of the residents who were around when the building collapsed.
“No mortalities recorded. All the Key Stakeholders that are important in managing disaster in Lagos are on ground.”

However, he said that the building will be pulled to ground zero for safety of the people living in the area and all the buildings adjacent/beside the collapsed building will be subjected to solid material testing.

It was not the first time buildings have collapsed in Lagos this year; recently a school building collapsed and killed so many victims including the owner of the school on Lagos Island. While the government was still investigating the cause of the collapse, another building collapsed again this Thursday morning.