About 18 people have been pulled out from the rubble of the collapsed two-storey building under construction at the 7th Avenue, Gwarinpa, Abuja. The building gave way in the early hours of Thursday when some labourers resumed work on the site. The Coordinator, Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC), Umar Shuaibu confirmed this while addressing journalists at the scene of the incident. He said the priority for now was to save lives of those who were trapped under the rubble and not to apportion blame.
February 2, 2023He said the priority for now was to save lives of those who were trapped under the rubble and not to apportion blame.
He said the priority for now was to save lives of those who were trapped under the rubble and not to apportion blame. "However at the end of the exercise, all the buildings here would be subjected to integrity tests to make sure all the buildings that are around this area are sound but if not, we will stop whatever development that is there. If it is soldiers, we will bring them down here.”
Some of the trapped victims have been making calls through their mobile phones to confirm their locations.
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