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It was a lucky escape for tenants of a one storey building located at 4, Aliratu Badejo Street, Pleasure bus stop, Oke-Odo near Abule Egba, Lagos as the attachment to the house collapsed about 2 p.m yesterday.
It was a lucky escape for tenants of a one storey building located at 4, Aliratu Badejo Street, Pleasure bus stop, Oke-Odo near Abule Egba, Lagos as the attachment to the house collapsed about 2 p.m yesterday.
P.M.News checks this morning revealed that there was no casualty and nobody was trapped because occupants of the building were evacuated before the incident occurred.
It was gathered that the landlord died many years ago but the building is inhabited by his children, grand children and some tenants. An aged woman, P.M.News was told, is in charge of the house.
Before the incident, P.M.News investigation revealed that renovation work was to be carried out from the side of the attachment to the house.
The bricklayer in an effort to join a pillar to the attachment dug part of the foundation and the entire attachment, about three rooms in the boys' quarters caved in.
A community leader in the area, who spoke with P.M.News on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the owners planned to renovate the building before part of it collapsed.
He explained: 'The residents were evacuated before any work could be done. The community as a whole has a lot of sympathy for the aged woman in charge. Every one thought of how we could help her.'
As at 9 a.m. today, workmen were still at the site to continue their planned renovation but experts advised that the whole building should be pulled down as there are cracks all over the building which was erected over ten years ago.
Last weekend, a wall collapsed at Iju area of Lagos and killed two persons.