Twelve people have been confirmed dead after a three-storey residential building collapsed following torrential rain in Jos, Plateau State.
The figure was confirmed on Tuesday evening by NEMA’s Head of Rescue Operations, North Central, Mr Nurudeen Musa.He added that four other victims have rescued.Rescue operations continue as the operators sifted through the rubble overnight after the building collapsed on Monday.Emergency officials said it occurred during working hours, sparing dozens of residents, who later returned to find their homes destroyed.
Residents said that extra floors of residential housing had been added to the building in recent years. It will be recalled that 20 people died when a building housing a nursery and primary school collapsed in Lagos, in March 2019.
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