No fewer than nine persons, on Monday, escaped death by a whisker when a four-storey building under construction in the Lifecamp area of Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory, collapsed.
We gathered that the building, which caved in around 4pm while workers were working at the construction site in the swampy Dape Area near the Berger Clinic, trapped some persons beneath the rubble.
Officials of the FCT Fire Service and the National Emergency Management Agency stormed the site of the collapsed structure to commence rescue operations.
The Head of Operations of the FCT Fire Service, Amiola Adebayo, could not confirm if any casualties were recorded in the incident.
He said five persons escaped when the building suddenly caved in, adding that four other victims trapped in the rubble were rescued and taken to the Gwarinpa General Hospital for immediate attention.
Adebayo said, “Five escaped out of the building by themselves. Four were rescued alive and taken to the Gwarinpa Hospital. There’s no certainty that anyone remains inside but operations may last for three to four days.”
The recent building collapse was the third in Abuja after a three-storey building collapsed in Gwarimpa earlier in February, and a fence collapsed in Wuse II, in April.
Punchng report.
