No deaths in Banana Island building collapse — LASEMA

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has claimed that there were no deaths recorded in the collapsed building at Banana Island, Ikoyi area of Lagos State.

In a statement on the agency’s Facebook page on Wednesday, it partly read, “Upon the arrival of the LASEMA Response Team at the scene of the incident, a six-storey building under construction was found to have collapsed.

“Information gathered revealed that the building collapsed as a result of a truck that ran into the building.

“Fortunately, no loss of life, however, efforts are ongoing to reconstruct the building to ground zero to forestall any secondary incident. Recovery operations ongoing.”

The seven-storey building under construction collapsed on Wednesday on First Avenue in Banana Island estate.

No fewer than seven persons were rescued from the rubble.

Our correspondent gathered that construction workers were performing their daily tasks in the building that had been under construction for months when it suddenly caved in around 4.58 pm.