Friday’s collapsed storey building at Ebute Meta on Lagos island has risen to three with the recovery of the body of a 12-year-old boy.
Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, the Territorial Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency, disclosed this at the scene of the disaster.
According to him, the bodies of two adults – a male and a female –were recovered from the rubble of the building.
Farinloye said the building collapsed on Friday morning on Herbert Marculley Way, Ebute Meta.
He recalled that the Lagos Building Control Agency had issued evacuation notice several times on the building and all the original occupants packed out.
“It was alleged that the property had been sold out about four months ago. Three of the occupants jumped to safety with the assistance of the residents,” Farinloye said.
Search and rescue operations were ongoing, he added.
“According to accounts of residents, prior to the collapse, a dog, which the people in the collapsed building had been taking care of, got to the building and started barking in a sorrowful manner and refused to eat or enter the building.
”No sooner had the dog left, than the building came down,” Farinloye said.
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