Site workers, residents escape death as three buildings collapse in Abia

A one-storey gathering nether operation has collapsed connected Finbars Road, Umuahia, causing panic successful the area.

The gathering collapsed successful the aboriginal hours of Friday pursuing a torrential downpour, though nary lives were lost.

The incidental occurred astir 2 months aft officials of the Umuahia Capital Development Authority (UCDA) declared the gathering amerciable and warned that it was nether menace of imminent collapse.

It was gathered that tract workers were not connected work erstwhile the gathering collapsed, miraculously escaping what could person been a tragic incident.

The General Manager of UCDA, Kingsley Agomoh, who led officials of the bureau to seal disconnected the collapsed building, confirmed that the proprietor and developer of the tract had been warned 2 months earlier to discontinue enactment due to the fact that of identified structural defects.

Also, an abandoned three-storey gathering astatine Road 2 Junction, Low Cost Housing Est...