IBADAN, Nigeria (VOICE Of NAIJA)- A collapsed three-story building under construction at Beirut GSM Market in Kano, has claimed the lives of two people including a staff of Kano Electricity Distribution Company.
Eight others were rescued after the collapse which occurred on the evening of Tuesday, 30 August, according to the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Kano State branch.
People were in the building when it went down at about 3.25 pm. on Tuesday.
The Secretary of the branch, Musa Abdullah, said that a staff of Kano Electricity Distribution Company also lost his life in the disaster, bringing the death toll to 2.
“A staff of Kano Electricity Distribution Company, who was trying to disconnect the building from the high tension but unfortunately, the power that was already shut down from the transformer, technically relayed back and trapped him which led to his death on the spot,” he said.
In a statement by the Kano Fire Service Public Relations Officer, Saminu Abdullahi, the agency said eight victims had been successfully rescued.
He listed the names of the survivors as: Naziru Abdulkadir, 24; Magaji Abubakar, 27; Abdurauf Muhammad, 38; and Minjibir Ibrahim, 46; Ahmad Buhari Haruna,16; Sadiq Haruna,19; Abdurashid Basiru, 36 and Danladi Lawan, 29.