101-yr-old 3-storey building collapsed in Kaduna
July 12, 2013
1:48 am
By Luka Binniyat
Terseer adamu ( Review)
KADUNA — A three-storey building, said to have been built over 101 years ago, yesterday, collapsed in Kaduna metropolis, trapping all the tenants that were inside at the time of the incident.
No fewer than 50 people were in the
building as the time of the incident and only five children, a woman and one
other man had been rescued at press time as there were no equipment to carry
out the operation.
101-yr-old 3-storey building
collapses in Kaduna
This was even as some of the victims
continued to hit the walls of the collapsed building, screaming for help.
A middle-aged woman and occupants of
the building collapsed on seeing the ruins, after shouting “my children, my
children!”
She was taken to one of the nearby
hospitals by men of the state’s Operation Yaki in a vehicle with number
plate KAF 251 AA.
Sources said the building, located
along Hadeja Road by Ibrahim Taiwo Road, had its three top floors as
residential homes, while the ground floor was used for trading.
It was said that the building, which
collapsed at 2.32p.m., attracted passers-by and neighbours, which security men
found difficult to control.
Gov, deputy seek help
Vanguard learnt that Governor Muktar Yero and his deputy, Nuhu
Bajoga, cut short other state functions and participated in the efforts to
rescue the victims.
They were said to have called
relevant agencies to move down their rescue equipment to the site of the
collapsed building.
Bajoga later sent the manager of one
of the construction firms in the state, PWD, to ask for bulldozers and other
equipment to hasten the rescue operation.
Helpless SEMA
Some officials of the State
Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, at the scene of were helpless in the chaotic
environment as they had no rescue equipment.
Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/07/101-yr-old-3-storey-building-collapses-in-kaduna/
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