Some victim that are yet-to-be-identified, up to seven in number lost their lives when a three-storey building under construction collapsed in the Obalende area of Lagos State on Sunday.
It was also gathered that, ten others were rescued by emergency responders through quick intervention.
According to the Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, he said the rescued victims were taken to hospital for treatment, adding that the corpses had been evacuated from the scene of the incident.
Oke-Osanyintolu said, “Upon arrival at the incident scene, a three-storey building under construction was discovered to have collapsed. The cause of the collapse has yet to be ascertained, but efforts are presently ongoing by the LASEMA Response Team and other responders to salvage the situation.
“As of 5.40pm, a total of eight men have been extricated alive by the LASEMA Response Team and other stakeholders, and have been attended to and quickly transferred to the Lagos Island General Hospital by LASEMA paramedics for further medical attention.
“Four people, made up of three males and one female, have so far been recovered dead and handed over to the SEHMU at the incident scene. A recovery operation is still ongoing.”
However, the acting Zonal Coordinator, South-West Zonal Office, National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, in an update on the incident around 7.42pm, said the corpses of six persons were removed from the rubble, while 10 other injured persons were rescued.
Labourers were still working on the third floor of the building, which had earlier been sealed off by the Lagos State Building Control Agency, when it caved in, trapped and killed some of them.
