According to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, no one was hurt when the building in Banana Island in the Ikoyi neighbourhood of Lagos State collapsed.
A six-story building under construction was discovered to have collapsed upon the arrival of the LASEMA Response Team at the scene of the incident, according to a statement posted on the agency’s Facebook page on Wednesday with the title “Situation report on the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi.”
“The information gathered showed that a truck running into the building is what caused it to fall.
Fortunately, there were no fatalities, but work is still being done to completely rebuild the structure to prevent any further incidents. Recovery efforts are still going on.
The ANAEDOONLINE had earlier reported that a seven-storey building under construction collapsed on Wednesday on First Avenue in Banana Island estate.
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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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