A three-storey building has just collapsed at Sonuga Street, Palm Avenue, in Mushin, Lagos.
“The developer has been dropping names any time our officers visit the place.”
Six persons were earlier said to have been trapped after the seven-storey building collapsed.
Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, says the police were probing the accident and treating it as a crime.
LASEMA noted that the property before the collapse was in violation of building safety protocols.
A forty-foot container on Wednesday crushed one person to death, leaving another with a serious leg injury.
Casualty figures now stand at four, emergency responders say.
Construction workers were on site when the building collapsed, trapping the workers.
The affected section of the market hosts clothes and bag sellers.
Many parents in Lagos have besieged Ojodu Grammar School in search of their children after a heavy-duty truck conveying detergents crushed some students to death.
