WOMAN, THREE CHILDREN KILLED IN LAGOS BUILDING COLLAPSE

‘A woman and her three children perished in the collapsed building while her husband survived. A building on top of a hill collapsed on buildings that were down the hill. With that, we had a lot of people trapped inside the buildings and we were able to rescue them. The pillars of the collapsed building killed the mother and her three children, we recovered four bodies’, he said

The General Manager said the husband of the deceased sustained a lot of injuries and had also been hospitalized, adding that six people were rescued from the building and also rushed to the nearest hospital.

Penpushing further reports that, in a similar development, Oke-Osanyintolu said two other buildings collapsed in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, with the first recorded at Ita-Elewa and another at Agric road, stating that there were no casualties.

The residents were of the conviction  that  the multiple incidents of buildings collapsing was as a result of rains that have caused flooding in many parts, while the worst affected areas  include Gbagada, Egbeda, Abraham Adesanya, Lekki and Ajah axis