Lagos mosque collapse: Community leader/chairman speaks on Sunday’s tragedy, victims, govt promise (Video)

Lagos mosque collapse: Community leader/chairman speaks on Sunday’s tragedy, victims, govt promise (Video)

One person, a minor, was confirmed dead and 20 injured persons rushed to the hospital on Sunday afternoon when a mosque collapsed in the Papa Ajao area of Lagos State.

The one-storey building came down during an afternoon prayer.

Chairman of the mosque, Qasim Babatunde, said he was in the mosque when the incident happened.

He said he had complained that the space being excavated on one side of the street where the mosque was located for a drain was unnecessarily wide, deep and too close to the building.

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“It was like a canal on a narrow road not a drain,” he said.

Babatunde in a video shared by Muslim News said, “Over 20 worshippers who sustained various degrees of injuries are currently receiving treatment at different hospitals in both private and government-owned hospitals.

“It looks to me that the operator of the excavator had an ulterior motive of digging too deep and wide not minding the effect on buildings; maybe they’re interested in selling the huge sand.”

He said he noticed the excavator operator continuously hitting the mosque substructure and had called attention to it.

He added that his plan was to call more elders before informing the local government chairman after the afternoon prayer when the sudden collapse occurred.

Lagos mosque collapse: Community leader/chairman speaks on Sunday’s tragedy, victims, govt promise (Video)