3-storey building collapses in Lagos

A three-storey building located at 11 Anikantamo Street, off Adeniji Adele Road, Lagos, collapsed at about 1.00 p.m on Wednesday, while controversy still trailed the number of casualty at the time of this report. Initial indications were that some occupants had died in the incident, while many were still believed to be trapped, however, this was rebuffed by the South-West zonal coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Iyiola Akande, who declared that only one of the occupants, a woman, was injured, adding that there were no indication of any trapped person. Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune in a telephone chat, Mr Akande said 'apart from an injured woman, who has been taken to a hospital, no other causality figure was recorded by NEMA. Nobody died in the collapsed building, because we have combed the rubble to that effect and we have found nothing.'However, a witness, Mr Abiodun Adedamola, said the building, believed to be about eight years old, collapsed without giving any signs, with the possibility of trapping some of its occupants.
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