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One dead, another rescued in Lagos building collapse: NEMA

The building, said to have been under construction, had collapsed during torrential rainfall.

• May 21, 2022
NEMA
NEMA

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday confirmed the rescue of one person, and the recovery of a dead body in a two-storey building that collapsed at Freeman Road, Lagos Island.

NEMA’s zonal coordinator for the South-West region, Ibrahim Farinloye, told journalists that the building under construction collapsed during torrential rainfall.

The emergency responders were on their way to the scene of the incident at the time of filing the report.

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