The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency on Thursday confirmed the death of three site workers on a building that collapsed at Arowojobe Estate in the Maryland area of the state.
The agencyโs Permanent Secretary, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria.
He said the incident happened at No 13, Wilson Mba Street, Arowojobe Estate, Maryland, Lagos.
He said that the three males who were recovered dead at the building were site workers.
โThe agency received a distress call regarding a collapsed building at the above address at about 3.49am.
โThis prompted the immediate activation of the agencyโs response team to the incident scene at 3.58am.
โIt was discovered that a set of three terraces under construction had collapsed.
โSearch and rescue operations began immediately and three adult males were recovered dead, two male adults were rescued alive and one adult male trapped under the rubble was rescued,โ he said.
He added that the rescued ones were carried out through the efforts of LASEMA and the Lagos State Fire Service.
โAll the six men were site workers.
โThey are receiving pre-hospital care on location while the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit has been contacted for the remains of the three fatalities.
โA combined team of agency personnel, fire service and Nigeria Police are working at the scene.
โLASEMAโs excavator has been deployed to accelerate the search and rescue operations,โ he said.
(NAN)
