(Update) Lagos building collapse: 8 rescued, hospitalised

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

Men of the Lagos State exigency squad person rescued each reported trapped 8 victims (all adults antheral operation workers) from the rubble of the collapsed 4 storey gathering astatine Number 333 Borno Way, Alagomeji, Ebute-Metta, Lagos Mainland Local Government Area of the State.
Recall that the unfortunate incidental which occurred connected Friday evening caused panic among residents arsenic they scampered successful antithetic directions to into safety.

Meanwhile, the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service has allayed the nationalist fearfulness connected passive leaked state pipeline with odour that pervaded Ikeja axis connected Friday evening, saying the concern has been brought nether power without immoderate grounds of actualities.

The Deputy Controller General, Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Olajide Ogabi, confirmed the developments to Vanguard.

According to Ogabi, each reported 8 trapped victims person been rescued live arsenic astatine 5 americium connected Saturday and are presently receiving attraction successful the hospital, arsenic hunt and rescue reached crushed zero portion evacuation of rubble continued.

The 4 storey gathering nether operation gave mode astatine astir 8 p.m. connected Friday arsenic reported earlier the involution of archetypal responders.

Lagos has each applicable exigency responders including the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Nigeria Police, Lagos State Command, among others astatine the country for the rescue mission.

“Further updates volition beryllium communicated arsenic concern unfolds, please,” Ogabi stated.

On the leaked state pipeline, Ogabi explained that the workout which was a regular decongestion of gaseous particles by Axxela Group the genitor institution of Gaslink, owners of state pipeline lines supplying the corridors had assured that the effect had been neutralized eliminating imaginable danger. Moreover, crews of Fire and Rescue are connected standby patrol of the axis connected information precautions.

He, therefore, urged the nationalist to workout caution and spell astir their mean lawful businesses without fearfulness arsenic the concern is nether control, assuring that the saturated aerial volition fizzle retired gradually.

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