An eye-witness, who identified himself as Gideon Danjuma, who lives very close to the scene of the incident, explained that the building collapsed at about
“We started digging to rescue those we could rescue. We dug for up to six hours before we could rescue one person at about 5.30am and some people are still trapped inside the building.“The security man of the building and some other people are still trapped inside the collapsed building. We pray that nothing will happen to them before they are rescued,” Danjuma said.
“We rushed out on hearing the sound and saw that the building close to us had collapsed and also our fence collapsed too, with some blocks hitting our cars which were parked by the fence.“We did what we could to rescue people and three people amongst the people that were inside escaped, while we were able to rescue one person from the building this morning.“From the voices calling for help, we are convinced that there are two people still trapped inside.
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