{"id":77590,"date":"2025-10-27T11:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77590"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:49:02","slug":"several-trapped-as-two-storey-building-collapses-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/27\/several-trapped-as-two-storey-building-collapses-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Trapped as Two-Storey Building Collapses in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"179\" data-end=\"240\"><strong data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"262\">By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"264\">\n<p data-start=\"266\" data-end=\"435\">Several persons were trapped when a two-storey building collapsed at 54 Cole Street, near Cemetery Bus Stop in the Oyingbo area of Lagos, in the early hours of Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"669\">The Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, confirmed the incident in a statement, saying the Sari-Iganmu Fire Station was alerted around 12:20 a.m. and immediately deployed rescue teams to the site.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"824\">\u201cIt is an ongoing rescue involving a two-storey building which had reportedly been marked distressed before collapsing on the occupants,\u201d Adeseye said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"1120\">According to the agency, 15 people \u2014 seven men, four women, and four children \u2014 have so far been rescued with varying degrees of injuries and taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute-Metta, and the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island. Rescue operations were still ongoing as of press time.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1122\" data-end=\"1305\">Building collapses have become a recurring tragedy in Lagos, often linked to weak regulatory oversight, use of substandard materials, and poor enforcement of construction standards.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1307\" data-end=\"1517\">In November 2021, a high-rise under construction in Ikoyi collapsed, killing at least 42 people. Another four-storey building came down in Yaba in September 2025, leaving many dead and several others trapped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Several persons were trapped when a two-storey building collapsed at 54 Cole Street, near Cemetery Bus Stop in the Oyingbo area of Lagos, in the early hours of Monday. The Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, confirmed the incident in a statement, saying the Sari-Iganmu Fire Station [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77592,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77590\/revisions\/77592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}