Abuja building collapses on workers, two feared dead

Two persons feared dead as Abuja building collapses

Two workers were reported to have died in Abuja on Wednesday at a construction site after a building fence collapsed on them.

Four other workers rescued at scene of the incident on Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2, were taken to the hospital for treatment.

The rescue operations were carried out by a joint team of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Fire Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Nigeria Police and volunteers.

FEMA Director General, Abbas Idris, who spoke to journalists at the scene of the incident, said, “FEMA received a distress call between 10am to 11am that there was a building collapse beside UBA, and drafted its rescue team to the site. On getting there, it was discovered it was a wall that fell on those artisans working around the area.

“So far, six people were removed from the rumbles, two were fatally injured while the remaining four are in the hospital receiving medical care. It is not the building under construction that collapsed, because it is still at the foundation level; it is the wall (perimeter fence) that fell on them.”

Idris could not confirm the death of the two workers, noting that only doctors could certify them dead.