Death toll in Lagos building collapse rises to 3

The death toll in Friday’s building collapse in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos State has increased to three with the recovery of the body of a 12-year-old boy.

The Lagos State Territorial Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the figure to newsmen in Lagos on Friday.

The bodies of two adults, a male and a female, were earlier recovered from the rubbles of the collapsed two-storey building.

The building on the Herbert Marculay Way, Ebute Metta, collapsed on Friday morning.

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“According to accounts of residents, prior to the collapse, a dog, which the people in the collapsed building had been taking care of, got to the building and started barking in a sorrowful manner and refused to eat or enter the building.

”No sooner had the dog left, than the building came down,” Farinloye said.

Farinloye had said the Lagos State Building Control Agency issued evacuation notice several times on the building and all the original occupants packed out.

“It was alleged that the property had been sold out about four months ago,” he added.

The Star