101 -YEAR OLD BUILDING COLLAPSES IN KADUNA

Same day as  3-storey building collapsed in lagos , its equivalent happened in Kaduna ,Nigeria as  101-year-old three-storey building located at Hadeja Road by Ibrahim Taiwo , Gombe Road very close to the Sheikh Gumi Central Market collapsed on Thursday at 2.32 p.m, throwing the entire area into fear and confusion.collapsed  . Only  five children, a woman and one other man being the lucky ones to be rescued early.

Sources say the rescue operation was hindered by lack of equipment to carry out the operation, as some of the trapped victims hit the walls of the collapsed building, screaming for help. A middle-aged woman who lived at the collapsed building fainted on seeing the ruins, after shouting “my children, my children!” She was taken to one of the nearby hospitals by men of the state’s Operation Yaki.

3-STOREY BUILDING COLLAPSE IN LAGOS LEAVING 10 PEOPLE DEAD + PHOTOS

“We did not know that the building will collapse. By about 2:00am when the building came down, some of our co-tenants were trapped, while some were dead,’’ She divulged, while giving details of the early warnings and signs from the collapsed building.”

As at 2:00am ,a 3-storey building located at   29B, Oloto Street, off Cemetery Road,Ebute Metta area of Lagos collapsed yesterday(Thursday Morning) . Ten dead bodies have so far been pulled out of the rubble while 7 people, including two children have been rescued alive. Many people are said to be trapped under the rubble as rescue efforts from the Lagos State Ambulance Service (LASAMBUS), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) ,Nigerian Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Red Cross, NEMA, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency,LASEMA, the state Fire Service, as well as other able bodied men of the area are involved in the ongoing rescue operation.

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