Many injured as two-storey building collapses in Abuja

In the Garki District of the nation's capital, Abuja, a two-story plaza on Lagos Street has fallen.

Vanguard learned that a late-night Wednesday downpour caused the structure to fall.

Emergency personnel said that 37 individuals had been saved to date, with two of them suffering "fatal" injuries.

They claimed that because there was no instant access to an excavator and all rescue efforts were manual, they had been slow during the course of the previous night.

Director General of FCT Emergency Management Agency FEMA, Dr. Abbas Idriss, confirmed the development by stating that 37 people had already been rescued at the scene of the collapsed structure.

He claimed that the patients had been transported to different hospitals in Abuja.

“Thirty Seven persons have so far been rescued and evacuated to hospital, others reportedly still trapped. Rescue team and others are on ground. Rescue operations on but slowly due to ongoing rain”. They are making frantic efforts at getting an excavator to remove people from the rubble”, he added.

The DG praised the efforts of all parties that laboured arduously manually to free trapped people, including community members.

He disclosed that the rescue effort is ongoing while they wait for equipment to improve the efforts.

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