The FCT emergency management agency, FEMA, has confirmed that no life was lost in the building collapse which occurred overnight in the Garki area of Abuja.
According to the Agency’s Acting DG, Florence Wenegieme, the building which is a four-storey, was an existing structure that was undergoing renovation.
Eyewitness accounts disclosed that most of the construction workers had already closed for the day, as at the time building caved in.
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Officials of the emergency management agency blame the contractor, for ignoring directives from the Abuja development control authority to stop work.
The agency noted three persons were rescued from the scene, with minor injuries and have since been treated and discharged from the hospital.
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