Scene of the incident. Photo: LASEMA
One person was killed while two others were rescued after a two-storey building undergoing manual demolition collapsed in the Aboru area of Lagos State.
The Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, disclosed in a statement on Thursday that the incident occurred at about 12:56am on Thursday at No. 42, Governors Road, Aboru, in the Alimosho Local Government Area of the state.
Oke-Osanyintolu stated that the Alpha Eagle Response Team of the agency was immediately dispatched to the scene after receiving a distress call.
According to the PS, preliminary findings showed that the building collapsed while it was being manually demolished.
