Abuja Plaza Collapse Claims Two Lives, 37 Rescued
Emergency personnel have said that 37 individuals have been saved to date, with two of them suffering “fatal” injuries when a multi-story building collapsed late Wednesday night amid a heavy downpour.
They claimed that because there was no instant access to an excavator and all rescue efforts were manual, they had been slow during the course of the previous night.
The Director General of the FCT Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, Dr. Abbas Idriss, confirmed the development by stating that 37 people had already been rescued at the scene of the collapsed structure.
He claimed that the patients had been transported to different hospitals in Abuja.
“As of right now, 37 people have been rescued and transported to hospitals; other people are apparently still stranded. On the ground are a rescue squad and others. Due to the continuous rain, rescue efforts are progressing slowly. They are scrambling to obtain an excavator to dig people out of the wreckage, he continued.
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The DG praised the efforts of all parties who laboured arduously and manually to free trapped people, including community members.
He disclosed that the rescue effort is ongoing while they wait for equipment to improve the efforts.
