Two-storey Building Collapses In Abuja -

A two-storey building
collapsed yesterday in Utako District
of Abuja, the nation’s capital city,
just as one of the occupants escaped
death narrowly.
The collapsed building which was an
abandoned one and situated behind
Media Trust office, publishers of
Daily Trust Newspaper took place
barely few weeks after a block of a
government secondary school
collapsed in Karu, a suburb town in
the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
Saturday Vanguard gathered that
although, the illegal occupants of the
abandoned building escaped unhurt
when the incident took place
yesterday at 9am, but one of them
was said to have narrowly-escaped.
When contacted, director of FCT
Development Control Department,
Yahaya Yusuf who explained that the
building had long been marked for
demolition and the owner was
expected to foot the financial cost of
the integrity test, said, “we are aware
that there was a building collapse
somewhere in Utako.
We had already marked the building
and we told the owner to stop work.
We were at the stage of conducting
an integrity test when we heard
about the building collapse.
”An independent body was
supposed to do that at the expense
of the owner. There were no
casualties as occupants of the
uncompleted building had already
been warned to vacate.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/
two-storey-building-collapses-abuja/

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