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Constructors Feared Dead As Hotel Collapses

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Constructors Feared Dead As Hotel Collapses

Report says four persons have been confirmed dead as a result of the collapse of a hotel building under construction at the university town of Abraka, Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State.

The incident happened as a result of a downpour during the morning hours yesterday at Aghwana Avenue in the university community.

Local sources claimed that five other persons escaped unhurt as part of the 206-room hotel building caved in, with the four dead victims buried underneath the rubbles. According to the sources, the victims were believed to be from the western part of the country, who served as ad-hoc construction workers at the site of the collapsed structure.
The sources added that the victims died before they could be rescued from the rubble as rescue operations were delayed due to the torrential rain in the area.

One of the sources said: “The building was already at the roofing stage before it collapsed. And those men or workers were sleeping inside. They wake up every morning to continue work. But nobody had seen them this morning before the collapse because of the rains. I suspect they might have been sleeping when the building fell on them”.

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As at the time of filing this report, rescue operations were said to be in progress, but officials of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) were yet to answer calls put to their cell phones. Locals are attributing the immediate cause of the collapse to the downpour but expert opinion was yet to determine whether the building under construction was structurally defective.

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