The death toll from the collapse of a skyscraper under construction in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos on Monday rose to 20, rescue services reported Tuesday.
In total, nine people were saved from the ruins of the 21-story building, he told the AFP Ibrahim Farinloye, head of the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema).
“We recovered another five bodies, which increases the toll to 20 dead. But the number of people rescued alive is still nine, “he said.
Nigerian rescue teams on Tuesday dug through the rubble for more survivors.
Farinloye previously said rescuers had been communicating with survivors who were still trapped underneath the collapsed building, so construction workers fear dozens of their colleagues are inside.
The building was still under construction when it fell abruptly onto a pile of concrete slabs on Monday in the Ikoyi neighborhood of Lagos.
The Lagos State Police said it is too early to determine the causes of the collapse, but the manager of the National Emergency Management Agency of Lagos, Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, explained that infractions had been committed in its construction and that they would investigate “ the matter to prevent it from happening again, “he told the AFP. (I)
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