Two construction workers reportedly lost their lives while four others escaped with injuries on Wednesday, when a perimetre fence felled on them, at a building construction site in Wuse II, Abuja.
Confirming the incident, Director General, FCT Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Dr Idriss Abbass revealed that the victims were removed from the rumbles of the collapsed wall.
He disclosed that FEMA received a distress call between 10 to 11 am, that there was a building collapse beside UBA, and drafted its rescue team to the site, on getting there, it was discovered it was a wall that felled those artisans working around the area.
He, however, added that the probable cause of the incident was that the workers had excavated or encroached deep into another building because it is not what they were building that fell.
“So far six people were removed from the rumbles, two were fatally injured while the remaining four are in the hospital receiving medical care.
“It is not the building under construction that collapsed, because it is still at the foundation level, it is the wall (perimeter fence) that felled on them,” the FEMA boss stressed.
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