Five workers have reportedly died from a collapsed building under construction at Arowojobe Estate, Mende area of Maryland, Lagos State, at the early hours of Thursday.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) boss, Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed the development in a statement, with five dead, four rescued alive and one trapped.
He said the building collapsed at 3:49am on Thursday at 13, Wilson Mba Street, Arowojobe Estate, Maryland, Lagos.
The emergency responder said five persons, all adult males, were rescued alive from the building collapse site.
According to him, “The Agency responded to the above incident and discovered that a set of three terraces under construction had collapsed.
“Search and rescue operations began immediately. Five adult males were recovered dead while 4 adult males were rescued alive, and 1 adult male trapped under the rubble was rescued alive by the LASEMA and the Lagos State Fire Service.
“All the men were site workers. They received pre-hospital care on location before being transported to the hospital while the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit (SEHMU) was contacted for the remains of the four fatalities,” the statement read.
“LASEMA’s excavator has been deployed to accelerate the search and rescue operations.”
