Police call for calm as three-storey building marked for demolition collapses in Abuja

The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has urged residents to stay calm pursuing the illness of a three-storey gathering connected Abidjan Street, Wuse Zone 3, Abuja.

A connection issued by the Police Public Relations Officer of the FCT Command, SP Josephine Adeh, said the unfortunate incidental occurred connected Monday night.

She said the Command received a distress telephone astatine astir 7:45 p.m. reporting the disturbing incident.

SP Josephine explained that upon receipt of the report, a constabulary effect squad led by the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Department of Operations, ACP Edward Akaniyene, and the Area Commander, Metro, ACP Georgelyn Ufomadu, was instantly deployed to the scene.

The PPRO noted that the team, alongside unit from the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA; Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC; Federal Roads Maintenance Agency, FERMA; Federal Fire Service, FFS; Security Service Department; Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA; and different applicable exigency effect agencies, commenced rescue and hunt operations astatine the country with contiguous effect.

According to her statement, preliminary investigations revealed that the gathering was earlier marked and sealed by the Department of Development Control, Abuja, pursuing a ace successful it.