Eight victims have been rescued and received medical treatment, while two others remain trapped in the rubble of a four-storey building that collapsed on Lagos Island on Thursday.
The permanent secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
Mr. Oke-Osanyintolu said LASEMA responded to distress calls early in the day and discovered that a four-storey residential building had collapsed at 15 Iga Idunganran Street, Lagos Island.
According to the statement, a preliminary investigation revealed that the immediate cause of the collapse was an ongoing renovation on the building, which had previously been marked for evacuation by the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA).
The statement added that 10 people were trapped under the rubble, and eight were rescued and treated by LASEMA’s Pre-Hospital Care Unit before being transferred to the Iga Idunganran Primary Health Care Centre.
Efforts are ongoing to rescue the remaining two victims.
