Nigeria: Lagos building collapse kills 36
A total of 36 people were killed in the collapse of a 21-storey building on Monday in Lagos, the economic capital of Nigeria, the emergency services said on Thursday (November 4th), which are continuing their search operations. "So far, 36 people - 33 men and 3 women - have been pulled from the rubble and there are nine survivors," Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, director general of the Emergency Management Agency, told AFP. Lagos State (Lasema). The skyscraper, under construction, collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital, on Monday, trapping many people inside.
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A total of nine people were rescued from the ruins of the 21-story building. Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu visited the site on Wednesday. Near the mountain of rubble more than ten meters high, he told the press that rescue operations “were still in progress”. "We remain hopeful... we are pumping water and oxygen into the debris in case there are still survivors," he said. A commission of inquiry made up of independent members has been set up and must shed light on this tragedy, he said. “Mistakes were made at all levels,” also said the governor, who had previously suspended the director of the regional building regulation agency.
In front of the collapsed building, despair could be read on the faces of the families on Wednesday. Some, very angry, accuse the authorities of the lack of resources and responsiveness in this search operation. For several hours in the morning, the backhoe loaders, mobilized to clear the debris, stopped. “What they are doing is not a rescue operation”, but an operation intended to recover bodies, launches annoyed the relative of one of the people stuck in the mountain of rubble. "It's as if they had already made up their minds," said Damilola Otunla, a 29-year-old woman whose brother was in the building when it collapsed.
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