By Akinwale Kasali
Not fewer than five persons have been confirmed dead by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, with several others sustaining varying degrees of injuries, when a two-storey building caved in at Arowojobe area of Maryland, Lagos State.
The bodies of the five persons were brought out of the rubbles. Two persons are still trapped under the ill-fated building erected on 13 Wilson Mba street, Arowojobe Estate Mende Maryland.
It was gathered by this medium that the deceased were artisans engaged by the owners of the building to carry out construction works.
Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyinyolu, Permanent Secretary, LASEMA), made this disclosure on Thursday morning during an ongoing search and rescue operations at the scene.
He said: “The agency received a distress call regarding a collapsed building at the above address at about 3:49 a.m. This prompted the immediate activation of the agency’s response team to the scene of the incident at 3:58 a.m”.
“The first three victims that were rescued were taken to Gbagada General Hospital while another two victims that were rescued by the emergency officials were ferried to the Trauma Center at Gbagada after being stabilised.
“In all, the five adult male victims that were recovered dead, have been handed over to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit, SEHMU, for further processing.
“All the six men were site workers.
“They are receiving pre- hospital care on location while the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit has been contacted for the remains of the three fatalities.
“A combined team of agency personnel, fire service and Nigeria Police are working at the scene.
“LASEMA’s excavator has been deployed to accelerate the search and rescue operations,” he said.
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