One person has been confirmed dead and 21 others rescued after a two-storey building collapsed in the Oyingbo area of Lagos State. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday, leaving several occupants trapped beneath the rubble.
The Director of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, Margaret Adeseye, said the agency received a distress call shortly before dawn and immediately deployed rescue teams to the site on Cole Street, Cemetery Bus Stop. She confirmed that 15 people, including seven women, seven men, and four children, were rescued earlier with varying degrees of injury.
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Those injured were taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Meta, and the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos Island. Adeseye added that the building had been marked as “distressed” before it collapsed and that rescue efforts by the Sari Iganmu Fire Station were still ongoing as of Monday afternoon.
Building collapses remain a recurring challenge in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria, often linked to poor structural integrity and heavy rainfall. The latest incident comes weeks after a similar collapse in the Alagomeji area of Lagos, which claimed one life.
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