One person has been feared dead following a building collapse within Agidingbi area of Lagos state.
One person has been
confirmed dead following a landslide at the Dosunmu street, off Amara
Olu road, Agidingbi in Lagos.
Reports from the spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency
(NEMA) Ibrahim Farinloye said landslide was the cause of the building
collapse, adding that rescue operations are ongoing but one woman, Mrs
Faisa has been brought out from the rubble dead. At the scene of the land slide, the Lagos state commissioner for
Environment, Babatunde Adejare told all the residents of the shanties to
evacuate the area adding that the shanty structures would be demolished
soon.
He said similar places
in the state will also be demolished as that states had issued a warning
to residents of such communities to evacuate as the rain begins.
Also, at about 110.pm, a
mosque at no 3, Adepitan street off ramat crescent, Ogudu area of the
state partially collapsed with no live lost.
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