Collapsed Building in Lagos Kills Two

A collapsed building at Block M20, Jakande Estate, at Church Street, Oke-Afa, Isolo, Lagos has killed two sisters of the same mother.
At 6.15 a.m, some officials of the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) came and took the corpses away.  A National Emergency Management Agency source said the mother of the children was also injured.

According to the neighbour, "The building was already sinking, shaking with cracked walls and they have been warned to pack out. “When we heard a huge bang and a cloud of dust, we ran out and heard screaming from inside the rubbles; so, we went to dig the people out with our bare hands." “But our efforts were futile as the girls were already dead,” he said.

NEMA, Red Cross, Civil Defence with the aid of Lagos State Ambulance Services have since evacuated the building and deposited dead bodies at the mortuary.