Students escape tragedy as Lagos school building collapses minutes after evacuation
About three minutes after nursery, primary and secondary school students were evacuated from a four-storey building in Lagos, the structure collapsed.
The building, located at 11 Adudatu Street, Aguda axis of Ogba, houses Yemco Nursery, Primary and Comprehensive College and came down at about midday.
Although, no causality was recorded as at the time of filing this report.
Earlier, wooden planks fell off the roof. And an alarm was raised. The school authorities were alerted, and the evacuation began.
According to reports, few minutes after they left the building, it collapsed.
An eyewitness narrated that the students narrowly escaped the incident, adding that it was just about three minutes after they were evacuated from the building that the structure collapsed.
He added that the structure had not shown obvious signs that it was about to give way.
Another eyewitness said “At first, the house started cracking little by little. The window frames had already fallen apart. After some minutes, the cement body of the house began peeling off. Not long after that, the building just sank.”
Officials of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service later secured the scene and restricted access to the area.
The Lagos State Fire Service is yet to issue an official statement on the incident.
