Death Toll In Lagos Building Collapse Hits Five- NEMA

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has confirmed that five workers have died after a building under construction collapsed on Thursday at 13, Wilson Mba Street, Arowojobe Estate, Maryland, Lagos.

The building under construction collapsed at 3:49 am on Thursday in the Maryland area of Lagos State, Nigeria.

Confirming the death toll, LASEMA’s boss, Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, in a statement said another five persons, all adult males, were rescued alive from the building collapse site.

“The Agency responded to the above incident and discovered that a set of three terraces under construction had collapsed.

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“Search and rescue operations began immediately. Five adult males were recovered dead while 4 adult males were rescued alive, and 1 adult male trapped under the rubble was rescued alive by the LASEMA and the Lagos State Fire Service.

“All the men were site workers. They received pre-hospital care on location before being transported to the hospital while the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU) was contacted for the remains of the four fatalities,” the statement read.

“LASEMA’s excavator has been deployed to accelerate the search and rescue operations.”