BREAKING: Students, Teachers Escape Death As Four Storey Building Collapses In Lagos

By Akinwale Kasali

Students and Teachers of Yemco Nursery, Primary and Comprehensive College, situated at 11 Adudatu Street, behind County Hospital in the Aguda axis of Ogba, Lagos, miraculously escaped death by whisker when the four storey building housing the School collapsed.

The building came down barely minutes after Students and Teachers  hurried out of the premises, preventing what residents said would have been a tragedy of monumental proportion.

Residents disclosed that concerns had been raised earlier when wooden planks reportedly fell from the roof, prompting alarm among people in the neighbourhood that tragedy was looming; that a possible collapse was imminent.

According to an eyewitness who claimed anonymity, “The students narrowly escaped the incident. It was just about three minutes after they were evacuated from the building that the structure collapsed”.

Another resident revealed that the structure had not shown obvious signs that it was about to give way, but there were reports that some planks on the roof were already given way, likewise some section of the building walls were already having cracks.

It was also gathered that an elderly man in the area had alerted the School authorities that the building might be unsafe, prompting the quick evacuation of the occupants.

Taiwo Ridwan, another resident, said the building showed signs of distress shortly before the collapse.

“At first, the house started cracking little by little. The window frames had already fallen apart. After some minutes, the cement body of the house began peeling off. Not long after that, the building just sank,” Ridwan said.

Officials of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service and Lagos State Emergency Agency, LASEMA, have secured the scene and restricted access to the area.

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