Ten rescued alive in Lagos building collapse

At slightest 10 persons person been rescued live aft a storey gathering collapsed successful the Satellite Town country of Lagos State on Thursday.

A connection by the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, LSFRS, disclosed that it received a distress telephone astir the incidental astatine 11:37 a.m.

According to the agency, the gathering illness occurred connected Old Ojo Road, by Alakija Bus Stop, disconnected the Lagos-Badagry Expressway successful Satellite Town, Lagos.

Emergency responders from the Ijegun-Egba Fire Station were instantly deployed to the country and arrived astatine 11:49 a.m. to commence rescue operations.

The bureau said the collapsed operation was a residential storey gathering occupied by respective residents astatine the clip of the incident.

It stated that, arsenic of the clip of filing this report, 10 victims had been pulled live from the rubble with varying degrees of injuries.

The rescued persons were subsequently handed implicit to aesculapian unit for indispensable treatment.

The Fire and Rescue Service noted that hunt and rescue efforts were inactive ongoing arsenic exigency workers continued operations to locate, extricate and evacuate anyone who mightiness inactive beryllium trapped beneath the debris.

“As of the clip of this report, 10 persons person been rescued live with varying degrees of injurie...