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<\/p>\nEight persons were said to be under the structure when the four-storey building under construction, came crumbling around 1.45pm.<\/p>\n
Eyewitnesses said those trapped were six labourers, including the site engineer.<\/p>\n
DAILY POST gathered that the building is owned by a lawyer, whose identity was not disclosed.<\/p>\n
Some of the sympathizers blamed the building engineer for using substandard materials for the construction.<\/p>\n
Divisional Police Officer for Onitsha central police station, Mr Ifeanyi Iburu led a team of security operatives to ensure adequate security of lives and property.<\/p>\n
Other rescue teams were Red Cross officers and other security agencies.<\/p>\n
Sympathizers and passersby were also part of those attempting to rescue the remaining six.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, one of the trapped persons was said to have been making calls from inside the debris, an indication that some of them might still be alive.<\/p>\n
Confirming the incident, the Chairman, Red Cross Society in Anambra State, Prof. Peter Katchy said the rescued casualties have been rushed to the hospital for medical attention.<\/p>\n
He said, \u201cOne of the persons rescued by Red Cross is at the intensive care at Holy Rosary Hospital Waterside Onitsha, while another is at General Hospital Onitsha.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour are still trapped under the debris of the collapsed building including the site engineer. The excavator and an Earth Moving Vehicle have just arrived now.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Six persons were on Wednesday feared dead in a building collapse at No. 7 Ezenwa Street Onitsha, Anambra State. Eight persons were said to be under the structure when the four-storey building under construction, came crumbling around 1.45pm. Eyewitnesses said those trapped were six labourers, including the site engineer. DAILY POST gathered that the building […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[795,6425],"class_list":["post-119825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anambra","tag-building-collapse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}