BUILDING COLLAPSE IN LAGOS!

No fewer than five persons cheated death in a two-storey building that collapsed partially in Ojo Alaba, Lagos in the early hours of yesterday.

Sunnewsonline.com gathered that the first part of the building which was still under construction on Adeyemi Street, People’s Bus Stop, Ojo Alaba, collapsed at about 2:00a.m., but no life was lost.

Witnesses said the ground and the first floors of the building were designated as warehouse, while second floor comprised three flats of two bedrooms each.

Residents said the deafening sound of the collapsed building woke them up and that it was raining at the time. The planks for the roofing of the building, they stated had been set but had not been covered with corrugated sheets.

Many of the residents of Adeyemi Street, who spoke on condition of anonymity stated that no fewer than five construction workers escaped death during the incident.

Some of the construction workers, working at the site, were said to have been sleeping in the building in the past few months.

“The building did not collapse at once. It was in bits. The first part collapsed at about 2:00am when rain was falling. We heard the loud sound and we all woke up.

“But the workers that slept in the building were lucky. The part of the building they were did not collapse. The first part that collapsed allowed them to move out before other parts began to collapse,” an elderly person in the community said.Source: The Sun