According to eyewitness accounts, the infant was being breastfed by the mother when the structure suddenly caved in.
The death toll from Thursday’s building collapse in the Satellite Town area of Lagos State has risen to four, with an eight-month-old baby and an 18-year-old boy identified among the victims, as emergency responders continue efforts to search for possible survivors trapped beneath the rubble.
SaharaReporters gathered this during a visit to the scene of the incident at about 4:40pm on Thursday.
Sources involved in the rescue operation disclosed that the body of an eight-month-old baby was recovered from the debris hours after the building collapsed along Old Ojo Road, near Alakija Bus Stop, off the Lagos-Badagry Expressway.
According to eyewitness accounts, the infant was being breastfed by the mother when the structure suddenly caved in.
