A video capturing the moment a seven-story building collapsed on Banana Island in the Ikoyi region of Lagos state, has been shared online.
The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon, April 12th, on 1st Avenue in Highbrow Banana Island while concrete was being poured on the sixth floor.
In the viral video, the building under construction, with people walking on the top floor, abruptly collapsed inwards as passers-by cried out in shock.
According to reports, the building collapsed after a truck ran into it. Fortunately, no one was killed in the collapse, according to a statement released by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency-LASEMA.
The statement reads,
“Situation report on the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi. Upon the arrival of the LASEMA Response Team at the scene of the incident, a six-storey building under construction was found to have collapsed. Information gathered revealed that the building collapsed as a result of a truck that ran into the building.
Fortunately, no loss of life, however, efforts are ongoing to reconstruct the building to ground zero so as to forestall any secondary incident. Recovery operations ongoing.”
Watch the video below,
