Photos: 4-storey building collapses in Lagos minutes after students’ evacuation
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About three minutes after nursery, primary and secondary school students were evacuated from a four-storey building in Lagos, the structure collapsed.
The building, located at 11 Adudatu Street, behind County Hospital in the Aguda axis of Ogba, houses Yemco Nursery, Primary and Comprehensive College. It came down at about midday.
Earlier, wooden planks fell off the roof. And an alarm was raised. The school authorities were alerted, and the evacuation began.
Few minutes after they left the building, it collapsed.
A resident told The Cable: “The students narrowly escaped the incident. It was just about three minutes after they were evacuated from the building that the structure collapsed.”
The resident added that the structure had not shown obvious signs that it was about to give way.
However, another eyewitness, Taiwo Ridwan, told same media house: “At first, the house started cracking little by little. The window frames had already fallen apart.
“After some minutes, the cement body of the house began peeling off. Not long after that, the building just sank.”
Officials of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service have secured the scene. And no casualty had been reported at the time of filing this report.
Below are more images from the scene, courtesy The Cable:
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