No fewer than four people, including children, were feared dead on Tuesday after a three-storey building collapsed in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
Three other victims were also reportedly receiving treatment at the General Hospital, Ilorin, with their conditions described as critical at the time of filing this report.
However, the Kwara State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) officially confirmed four deaths and the rescue of four other victims from the rubble.
The incident occurred at about 5:30 a.m. at Oke-Oyan, in the Popo Giwa area of Ilorin, when the 30-room building suddenly caved in, trapping several occupants underneath the debris.
Eyewitnesses said volunteers involved in the rescue operation recovered the bodies of a mother and her son from the rubble.
