Many individuals had been trapped when a four-storey constructing hooked up to the Westbrook Lodge within the Garki space of the Federal Capital Territory collapsed on Monday night time.
The Westbrook Lodge is alleged to be owned by a former governor of a state within the South East.
An eyewitness, who knowledgeable PUNCH On-line of the incident on situation of anonymity, mentioned there may very well be a “chance” of casualties as he noticed two trapped individuals being pulled out from the rubble and brought to the hospital.
“There’s a chance that there may very well be some individuals contained in the collapsed constructing who might have died. I noticed two individuals being pulled out from the rubble now and brought to the hospital whereas rescue operations are ongoing. The emergency responders should not coordinated but for environment friendly operations,” he mentioned.
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