The National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed the death of one person in a building collapse in Lagos State on Tuesday.
Ibrahim Farinloye, the NEMA spokesman, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
Farinloye also confirmed that 13 people, including an 11-year-old boy, who had his two legs chopped off, were rescued alive.
He said that the incident happened at Tokunbo, off Odunfa Road, Parrena Street, Lagos Island.
Farinloye said the deceased was an elderly person who sustained head injury.
He said: “The people rescued alive have been taken to the General Hospital, Marina.
“The rescue operation is still ongoing and we will have to work till day break to save other people who are still underneath the building.”
Farinloye said that the rescue operation was being handled by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency Response Unit, Nigeria Police, Lagos State Ambulance Service and the Lagos State Fire Service.
The General Manager of LASEMA, Adesina Tiamiyu, told NAN that the four-storey building collapsed at 2.43pm.
Tiamiyu said the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and Red Cross were also involved in the rescue operation.
“Heavy duty equipment is searching through the rubbles,” Tiamiyu said.
NAN reports that a building also collapsed in Lagos on Saturday, killing a woman and her daughter.