OMG!!! Another Building Collapses In Lagos, 3 Feared Dead

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Reports are reaching US that another building has
collapsed in Ojodu Berger area of Lagos state, leaving
two brothers and a baby boy dead.

This comes barely two weeks after a three-storey
building collapsed in Odunfa, Lagos Island, although
there were no deaths recorded in that incide n t .

According to Tribune, the incident occurred on
Saturday morning and the casualties were confirmed
by the National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA), which has been at the forefront of an on-
going rescue mission.

File Photo of a collapsed building in Nigeria
The report further confirmed that the incident took
place at Orisha Street, Isheri Magodo, Imodium,
Ojodu/Berger, where the baby boy was the first to be
recovered dead.

Also, a woman with two out of four other trapped
children, was recovered injured and rushed to Tabasco
General Hospital.

The siblings who died, Sylva Odiah and Sayo Odiah,
were 24 and 15 respectively, while the rescue team was
still trying to recover 11-year-old Clinton Odiah and
eight-year-old Endurance Odiah.

The Nation reports that Mayflower Hospital, where
the mother of seven was initially taken, rejected her
because ‘there was no card’ before she was quickly
rushed to Tabasco Hospital.

A resident said that the building, a bungalow, did not
collapse by itself.

He said: “Around 6am, we heard a loud sound. But we did
not know that the upper part of another building beside the
bungalow has fallen on it.

“Unfortunately, it fell just on the room where Mr. Godwin
Odiah’s children were sleeping. The man has seven children
but three of them are not around.

“He was the one who saw it and started screaming for help.
He said he was in the bathroom when he heard the sound
but did not know that it was in his compound.

“Another building also collapsed again but I don’t know if
anyone was killed.

“Government needs to do something in this area. It is
sandy and water logged. I think the incident is not
unconnected with the heavy rain and the topography in the
area.”

Emergency workers comprising NEMA, the Lagos
state fire service, Lagos State Emergency
Management Agency (LASEMA) and the police were
on the ground to manage the situation.

While confirming the incident, Ibrahim Farinloye,
NEMA’s spokesman for the southwest, said the
collapse was caused by mudslides from the cleavage of
a hill beside River Ogun.

“Four persons were recovered dead. The cause of the
collapse was the heavy rainfall.

“Mudslides from the cleavage of a hill beside River Ogun hit
the three bedroom flat, unfortunately the room where the
deceased were recovered was the one hit by the mudslides.
“Another mudslide fell on one single room building in the
area but no one was trapped there,” he explained.

Source: Naij

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