“No life lost in Banana Island building collapse” – LASEMA

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has confirmed that no life was lost after the storey building in Banana Island collapsed

In the late hours of yesterday afternoon, it was reported that a 7-storey building on 1st Avenue in Highbrow Banana Island collapsed while some workers were still working.

In a statement released by LASEMA, it disclosed that the building collapsed after a truck ran into it.

”Upon the arrival of the LASEMA Response Team at the scene of the incident, a seven-story building under construction was found to have collapsed. Information gathered revealed that the building collapsed as a result of a truck that ran into the building.

Fortunately, no loss of life, however, efforts are ongoing to reconstruct the building to ground zero so as to forestall any secondary incident.‘’