Residents and passersby gathered as night fell on Thursday as they joined a team of emergency and aid workers who searched through the rubble looking for survivors.
The building was still under construction when it collapsed into a pile of concrete slabs at noon on Thursday, trapping dozens of people working on the site.Rescue officials said many workers were caught inside the building when it crumbled though they could not confirm the number of people trapped. Witnesses say up to 50 people were missing.
Shehu Ahmad, the executive secretary of Federal Capital Development Control , described the event as “sad and happened at a time when we are trying to as a nation come out of this issue of building collapses in Nigeria.”
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