General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Adesina Tiamiyu, has said that 12 persons have been confirmed dead after a building collapsed on Lagos Island on Wednesday.
The three-storey building housed an illegal school on the third floor.
Mr Tiamiyu said 43 people have been rescued so far from the rubbles.
LASEMA had been joined in the rescue operations by officials of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the police, army, and the National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode visited the scene and commiserated with families of the victims.
The governor said the tragedy was quite an unfortunate one and that from “what we have observed here and from the briefings I have received, we already have almost about two floors sunk into the ground.”
