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Building Collapses In Kubwa, Abuja

Two persons have been confirmed dead after a shopping mall, a three-storey building around Hamza Abdullahi Way, collapsed in Kubwa, a satellite town in Abuja.

Kubwa is Abuja’s largest satellite town. With the influx of population growth,  Kubwa has in recent times witnessed the conversion of residential buildings to commercial centres and vice versa. 

The building which caved in, in the early hours of Friday was still under construction, but had some artisans living inside it. 

As at 2pm on Friday, five of the seven persons earlier trapped under the rubble had been rescued by the disaster management team of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC, officials of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) and sister agencies, while tractors continued combing the rubble in search of the other two.

The rescued victims were taken to the Hospital in Kubwa.

Sadly, the Head of Public Affairs of FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Nkechi Isa, in a statement, confirmed the death of the last two persons.

“The rescue operation at the collapsed site came to an end with five persons rescued alive, three with various degrees of injuries, while two persons were unhurt and discharged from the Kubwa District Hospital,” Ms Isa noted.

Following the collapse of the building, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammadu Musa Bello, has ordered an integrity test on all high-rise buildings in the Kubwa area, to prevent reoccurrence.


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  1. Anonymous2 September 2022 at 07:16

    When there is nobody that regulates these structures!!! It collapses and kills the innocent ones instead of the government officials or the Body in charge of the inspection. Mad Builders!!

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