Six people die after building collapses in Lagos [PHOTO]

Six people have been confirmed killed in a building that collapsed at 29B, Oloto Street, off Cemetery Road, Ebute Metta, Lagos. Among the dead victims were a couple, a baby and three others who have since been pulled out the three-storey building. The incident occurred on Thursday morning.

Report says six persons had equally been pulled out alive from the building which collapsed around 2:00am.

Confirming the incident, Spokesperson of the National Emergency Management Agency,NEMA, South-West, Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, disclosed that the Agency was informed that the collapsed building began cracking at about1:30am and collapsed at exactly 2:00am with six people already confirmed dead, while six others were pulled out alive, with minor injuries.

Emergency worker are still working towards rescuing anyone that might likely be trapped in the debris.

Dailypost has gathered 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 other able bodied men of the area are involved in the ongoing rescue operation.

One Miss Dalikis Abdulamid, 23, who was also rescued from the building disclosed that she was at the balcony of the second floor when the incident happened.

She confirmed that she was rescued alongside her mother and her four siblings who have already been taken to the hospital for proper treatment.

“We did not know that the building will collapse. By about 2:00am when the building came down, some of our co-tenants were trapped, while some were dead,’’ She divulged, while giving details of the early warnings and signs from the collapsed building.

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