Lagos collapsed building: Bodies of three family members recovered

The collapsed building

The bodies of 16-year-old Maleek, his 13-year-old sister Ameerah, and their 73-year-old uncle, known simply as Bolaji, were on Wednesday recovered from the rubble of a collapsed two-storey building in the Ota-Ona community of Ikorodu, Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro correspondents, who visited the scene of the incident located along Awolowo Road, gathered that the three victims were members of the same family.

The uncompleted structure, according to sources in the community, was being financed by a member of the family based in the United Kingdom, while the late septuagenarian was overseeing the construction in Nigeria.

Residents who spoke with PUNCH Metro on Wednesday disclosed that the building had been showing signs of structural weakness long before the collapse, which occurred on Tuesday.

While some blamed the site engineer responsible for the project, other residents said they were shocked by the incident.

As earlier reported by PUNCH Metro on Wednesday, 10 persons were rescued from the rubble by the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service.

Findings by our correspondents, however, showed that all those rescued were site workers, while the three deceased were not part of the construction team. Punch