Many feared dead as building collapse in Kaduna

Tradegy struck on Thursday in Kaduna
following the collapse a three -storey
building in the metropolis.

Scores of traders and residents were said
to have been trapped in the building which
served both as residential and commercial
building.
Residents as well as traders in the market
watched helplessly for three hours without
sghting rescue operators.

They lamented that three hours after the
collapse of the building, no heavy duty
vehicle that could rescue those trapped in
the building was sighted.

There is no hope that residents trapped
would be rescued alive.
Even the Governor of the state, Ramallan
Yero, one of the early callers at the scene
of the incident, wept on sighting the
building.

He left the scene of the incident and came
back at about 4:15pm when a crane from
the Julius Beger Constrcution Company had
commenced work on the collapsed
building.

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