The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency has revealed
that there were no casualties in the collapsed building at Banana Island, Ikoyi
area of Lagos State.
In a statement titled, ‘Situation report on the collapsed
building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi’ on the agency’s Facebook page on
Wednesday, it partly read, “Upon the arrival of the LASEMA Response Team at the
scene of the incident, a six-storey building under construction was found to
have collapsed.
“Information gathered revealed that the building collapsed
as a result of a truck that ran into the building.
“Fortunately, no loss of life, however, efforts are ongoing
to reconstruct the building to ground zero to forestall any secondary incident.
Recovery operations ongoing.”
Recall that a seven-storey building
under construction collapsed on Wednesday on First Avenue in Banana Island
estate.
No fewer than seven persons were rescued from the rubble.
Our correspondent gathered that construction workers were
performing their daily tasks in the building that had been under construction
for months when it suddenly caved in around 4.58 pm.
It was learnt that while some of the workers at the site
escaped unhurt with some sustaining varying degrees of injury, some other
workers, who were unlucky, got trapped beneath the rubble of the collapsed
structure.
In a bid to rescue the trapped victims, some eyewitnesses,
including construction workers at the site of adjoining buildings within the
premises, raised the alarm and alerted relevant emergency agencies who
mobilised to the scene to commence rescue operations.
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