The three-storey building which collapsed on Friday in Lagos killed four persons, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has said.
The agency said one other person was rescued in the building that collapsed on Oye Sonuga Street, Palm Avenue, in Mushin, Lagos.
NEMA South-West Zonal Coordinator, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, revealed that those who died were two males and two females.
Earlier, the Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr Omotayo Bamgbose-Martins the cause of the collapse would beinvestigated.
It is learnt that the three-storey building built 40 years would be pulled down immediately for safety reasons and to forestall further collapse, said Bamgbose-Matins.
He has therefore, ordered the Lagos State Building Control Agency and the Lagos State Materials Testing Laboratory to unravel the cause of the collapse.
Some residents of the building revealed that there were distress signs on the structure.
An occupant of the building identified only as Baba Wale said, “Yes, the house was weak. The collapsed building is where I live. I was able to get out uninjured.”
Another resident who spoke on condition of anonymity said he hurriedly returned home after he got a call about the incident and was trying to save some of his property.
The collapse of the three-storey house brings to ten the number of buildings that have collapsed in Lagos State this year.
On September 4, a seven-storey building under construction at Oba Idowu Street, Victoria Island caved in and two people were reported dead. In the last two years, 84 persons have died in 18 building collapses in the state. A United States non-profit organisation, Brookings Institution stated that between 2000 and 2021, Lagos recorded 167 reported cases of building collapse.
