Occupants Trapped As 101-year-old Building Collapses In Kaduna

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At least 50 people were trapped in a three-storey building, yesterday, when the 101-year-old building collapsed in Kaduna, with only five children, a woman and one other man being the lucky ones to be rescued early.

Sources say the rescue operation was hindered by lack of equipment to carry out the operation, as some of the trapped victims hit the walls of the collapsed building, screaming for help.

A middle-aged woman who lived at the collapsed building fainted 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.

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.

The rescue efforts did mot leave out the big names as Governor Muktar Yero and his deputy, Nuhu Bajoga, cut short other state functions to participate.

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.

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