For the fourth time in three months, another building collapsed in Lagos in which two people were feared dead while 14 others were rescued alive by emergency respondents on Monday.
It was once reported that the incident happened around 7.30a.m., at Daddy Alaja Street, Oke Arin on Lagos Island.
The two dead persons, a man and a woman, whose identities could not be confirmed by the respondents, were pulled out of the debris from the three-storey building.
The building, housing many occupants, was also under renovation when it crashed.
The source said, “As at 1.30p.m., all the rescue operations had been concluded. Some of those rescued alive were treated at the scene.
“Those with serious ones were taken to the General Hospital on Lagos Island” .
The spokesman of the Lagos State Police Command, ASP Olarinde Famous-Cole, confirmed the incident.
Famous-Cole, however, could not ascertain the number of deaths as at press time.
