National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, yesterday confirmed two persons dead and two injured in a two-storey building collapse at Noman’s Land, Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State.
NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuraddeen Abdullahi, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Kano.
He said, “The agency received a distress call today at about 2am from a good Samaritan that a two-storey building collapse at Noman’s Land Quarters, Kano.
“On receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team to the scene.
“Four persons rescued by our team were husband, wife and two children; out of the victims, the two children were confirmed dead, while the couple was rushed to the Armed Forces Specialist Hospital, Kano for treatment”, Abdullahi said.
He noted that search and rescue operations is ongoing to rescue trapped persons in the building.
NAN reports that the Kano State Fire Service, Police, Red Cross, NSCDC, SEMA and others were among the search and rescue team. NAN
