By Oluwatosin Maliki
On Wednesday, a two story building undergoing construction collapsed in Ikirun, the headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Area of Osun State, killing two individuals.
It was gathered the deceased and two other persons were reported to have been working in the building on Wednesday evening when the building caved in on them.
According to Lateef, a resident of the area, he disclosed that the owner of the property was also among the victims that died while on admission at a nearby hospital.
He explained, “Some minutes to 7 pm on Wednesday, we heard a loud noise from a construction site in our area and immediately, people rushed to the scene.”
Furthermore, he said that when neighbours got to the scene of the incident, they were able to rescue four people from the rubble, which were three females and a male.
In addition, he noted that some good samaritans quickly rushed the victims to a hospital nearby. But, unfortunately two of the victims died on Thursday morning, due to the serious injuries they sustained from the incident.
Kehinde Adeleke, the Public Relations Officer of the Osun State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC), has confirmed the incident.
The NSCDC spokesperson said that even though the property was still under construction, it was already used as a church.
She said, “A storey building being used as a church collapsed on Wednesday around 6.45 pm. The church building is in the Eweta community in Ikirun”.
Adeleke stated, “Our officers that visited the scene said the affected building was still under construction and some workers were working inside it when it collapsed”.
“Four people were trapped under the rubble. They were later evacuated and taken to a nearby hospital. Three women and a man were evacuated.”
Also, she revealed that as of Thursday, two of the victims, including the woman who owned the building had died.