The FCT Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, has said the ongoing search and rescue for persons trapped in the debris of a collapsed three-storey building
building, under constructionThe agency’s Head of Public Affairs, Mrs Nkechi Isa, in a statement on Friday in Abuja, said as of this morning, 21 persons were rescued alive, while three others were removed from the rubble fatally injured.
She said during a visit to the site of the incident, the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammed Bello, commiserated with the families of the victims and residents of the FCT over the unfortunate incident. “These are issues which the FCT environment was not prominent with, but because of some activities of quackery, this has come into the FCT and the FCT is not too happy with these happenings.”He stated that the FCTA would stop at no limit to identify those involved in the unfortunate development.
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