Nine persons have been rescued from the scene of a collapsed building at the Life Camp area of Abuja, on Monday.
Abass Idris, director-general of the federal capital emergency management agency (FEMA), said those rescued were borougth out of the debris of the building at about 7:44 pm.
NAN reports that the building, which was said to be a hotel under construction, collapsed around 4 p.m. on Monday, trapping undisclosed number of workers.
Emeribe David, a superintendent of the Nigerian Fire Service, said a distress call was received at about 4.pm.
He said his team joined other agencies in the operations to save the lives of the people trapped in the wreckage.
He identified some of the agencies as the FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Road Safety Corps, National Emergency Management Agency and security agencies, among others.
“Immediately the fire service received the call, we were deployed to the scene with a fire truck and ambulance crew to see what we can salvage, ” he said.
“We do not know the number of people that were trapped, but we will figure that out when we continue the operations in the morning. ”
David added that all the agencies involved agreed to resume the rescue operation on Tuesday morning.
