Although one person has been confirmed dead while six others were reportedly injured in the building collapse involving one of the plazas being built at Itoku Market, Abeokuta by the Ogun State Government, sources informed about the development told SIGNAL on Friday many are yet to be accounted for in the rubble after the incident.
The four-storey building collapsed early this morning.
The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Otunba Adedayo Adeneye, said 16 construction workers were at the site.
“At the moment, records from the site engineers indicate that there were 16 workers on site at the time of the unfortunate incident and they have all been accounted for,” Adeneye said.
“Eight of them were rescued unhurt, five who sustained different degrees of injuries are presently receiving treatment at the State hospital Ijaiye, Abeokuta, one is critically injured, while two have been discharged.”
Reports indicate that the deceased was one of the labourers whose name was given as Noimat Sikiru, who was a nursing mother.
She reportedly died on the way to the hospital.
As of the time this report was filed, the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, and many of the executive council members were still at the site.
Efforts to clear the rubble at the collapsed building site are ongoing.
Meanwhile, Adeneye also journalists that it was too early to conclude on what could have caused the building collapse, adding “we will conduct investigations into what could have led to it.”
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