Two kids born of the same mother were killed on Wednesday when a building collapsed at number 26 Jakande Estate in Isolo Lagos.
A two-storey building, Block M20, at Church Street, Oke-Afa, Isolo, Lagos, on Wednesday collapsed at about midnight killing two sisters.
The sisters in their mid-20s were pulled out from the debris dead, while their mother was seriously injured and had been taken to the hospital.
The News Agency of Nigeria correspondent who visited the scene reported that at about 6.15 am, some officials of the Nigerian Red Cross Society came and took the corpses away.
NAN also reports that some other buildings around the vicinity were noticed to have severe cracks.
The buildings were erected about 30 years ago.
A man living in the neighbourhood, Mr. Opeyemi Fagun, told NAN that they noticed that the building had been sinking gradually for about a year.
He said the occupants had been warned to evacuate the building over a year ago when the walls started cracking.
According to him, occupants of one of the floors in the building had packed out early this year while the others remained.
“The building was already sinking, shaking with cracked walls and they have been warned to pack out.
“When we heard a huge bang and a cloud of dust, we ran out and heard screaming from inside the rubbles; so, we went to dig the people out with our bare hands.
“But our efforts were futile as the girls were already dead,” he said.
Another neighbour, Kidochi Okonye, said that when they came out at about 12.30 am and saw what happened, they called the National Emergency Management Agency, the fire service and the Red Cross, but none of them came.
He said that Red Cross officials eventually came by 6 am when the dead sisters had been pulled out and their corpses carried away.
The branch secretary, NRCS, Lagos State, Mrs. Ijeoma Nweke, told NAN that the corpses had been deposited at the Isolo General Hospital.
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