Building collapse kills five with many trapped
Lagos: A three-storey residential building has collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, killing at least five people with many feared trapped, emergency response services said.
“Twenty-three people have been rescued alive including seven children and 16 adults,” said Ibrahim Farinloye, of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.
“Nine of those rescued alive have been treated and discharged.”
Among the dead are a mother and her son, said Mr Farinloye.
The residential apartment building collapsed late on Sunday night in the Oyingbo area of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial centre and most populated city with more than 14 million people.
Residents and passers-by gathered before dawn as they joined a team of emergency and aid workers who searched through the rubble in search of survivors.
It is not clear how many occupants were in the apartment building, located in a denselypopulated area of the city.
Changsha: Two people have been rescued from the rubble of a building in central China more than 50 hours after it collapsed, leaving dozens trapped or missing, state media said.
Separately, police arrested nine people including the building owner on suspicion of causing a major liability accident, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
State broadcaster
CCTV showed video of rescuers bringing a woman out on a stretcher at about 4.30pm local time on Sunday.
The woman was taken to hospital and is in a stable condition, CCTV said.
State media reported another person was brought out alive in the evening but provided no details.
Seven people have been rescued from the building, which collapsed on Friday afternoon in the inland city of Changsha, the capital of Hunan province. About 20 others remained trapped, and another 39 had not been accounted for as of late Saturday.
Besides the owner, police said they had arrested three people in charge of design and construction and five others for what they said was a false safety assessment for a guest house on the building’s fourth to sixth floors.
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