Ten people have been rescued with varying degrees of injuries following the collapse of a storey building in the Alakija area of Lagos.
The Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service said the building, which collapsed on Thursday, is a residential structure located at Old Ojo Road, by Alakija Bus Stop, off the Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Satellite Town, Lagos.
“The incident involves the collapse of a storey building, an existing residential structure occupied by multiple residents at the time of the incident,” the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service Controller General, Margaret Adeseye, said in a statement on Thursday.
“As of the time of this report, 10 persons have been rescued alive with varying degrees of injuries and have been handed over to medical personnel for necessary treatment.”
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According to her, the service received a distress call at 11:37 am regarding a building collapse incident, and immediately, emergency responders from the Ijegun-Egba Fire Station were mobilised and arrived at the scene at 11:49 am.
Adeseye said search and rescue operations “remain ongoing as emergency responders continue efforts to locate, extricate, and evacuate any persons who may still be trapped beneath the debris”.
Emergency responders are at the scene of the incident in continuation of a rescue operation. They include the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Federal Fire Service, Nigeria Police Force, Nigerian Navy, Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC), and the Nigerian Red Cross Society.
This is the second building collapse reported in the country in the last 24 hours. On Wednesday, one person was confirmed dead while three others were rescued after the collapse of a building under construction along Odili Road in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The incident occurred less than 48 hours after another building collapse was reported in the Iwofe area of Rivers State, raising fresh concerns over construction safety and regulatory compliance in the state.
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