The collapsed structure which had been billed to be a five star hotel, according to sources, collapsed Thursday evening after a loud structural defect noise occurred as site workers were working.
A combined team of the Owerri Capital Development Authority ; the National Emergency Management Agency ; the Fire Service; the Red Cross among others, have deployed two extra excavators, bringing to a total of four, excavating the debris, to bring out possible persons trapped or killed in the collapsed eight-storey building under construction on Musa Yar ‘adua Drive, Owerri, Imo State.
He debunked as false the story carried in some national dailies that 15 persons were dead in the incident, clarifying that five out of 12 persons wounded had been discharged from the hospital. He explained that the reason for the operation taking two days was in order not to inflict more damage as the rescue was going on.
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