A worker was rescued alive
early this morning, four days after a seven-storey building collapsed at Woji
road in New GRA in Port Harcourt, Rivers state. He was rushed to the hospital
in an ambulance after being rescued by emergency workers and some Rivers State
government officials.
The structure was under
construction before the tragic incident which left at least four persons dead,
many injured and an unspecified number of workers trapped.
When the building collapsed
around 4:30 pm on Friday, November 23, up to 60 persons mainly construction
workers were said to have been working on it.
Around 7:30 pm, three hours
after the collapse, emergency workers had rescued a total of 21 persons from
the rubbles. Meanwhile, Rivers State, Governor, Nyesom Wike, has ordered the
immediate arrest of the owner of the collapsed building on GRA Phase 2 in Port
Harcourt.
Wike vowed that the state
government would bring those responsible for the collapse of the building to
book. The governor also directed the State Attorney-General to set up a
Commission of Inquiry to ascertain the remote and immediate causes of the
collapse of the privately-owned seven-storey building at Woji road, New GRA in
Port Harcourt.
Wike described the building
collapse as a sad development, which had led to the painful loss of lives.
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