Two children dead, parents injured in Kano building collapse
The National Emergency Management Agency on Thursday confirmed two persons dead and two injured in a two-storey building that collapsed at Noman’s Land Fagge Local Government Area of Kano.
NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuraddeen Abdullahi, confirmed the incident in Kano.
He said, “The agency received a distress call today at about 2:00 a.m from a good Samaritan that a two-storey building collapsed at Noman’s Land Quarters, Kano. On receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team to the scene. Four persons rescued by our team were husband, wife and two children; out of the victims, the two children were confirmed dead, while the couple were rushed to Armed Forces Specialist Hospital, Kano for treatment.’’
He noted that the search and rescue operations were still ongoing to rescue trapped persons in the building.
The Kano State Fire Service, Police, Red Cross, NSCDC, SEMA and others were among the search and rescue team.
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