{"id":159878,"date":"2019-10-13T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T10:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=159878"},"modified":"2019-10-13T11:53:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T10:53:29","slug":"lasema-gives-update-on-collapsed-building-in-lagos-tanker-accident-on-otedola-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=159878","title":{"rendered":"LASEMA gives update on collapsed building in Lagos, tanker accident on Otedola bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/collapse-building-lekki.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, has confirmed that the collapsed storeyed building in Isheri Magodo, Lagos, killed a mother and three children.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that in the wee hours of Saturday, a house caved in at Orisha community in Magodo. Four persons were feared dead.<\/p>\n<p>Oke-Osanyintolu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Saturday that the incident occurred on Saturday morning, adding that the bodies of trapped persons had been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, on arrival at the scene, it was discovered that the building suddenly collapsed from the top of the hill on another building down the street.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe collapsed building claimed four lives of a family namely: Mrs Jumiah Utache (Wife), nine-year-old, Domino Utache, two-years old boy and Daniel Utache, a-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bodies of the deceased are bagged by Tiger team and have been handed over to the family members, together with that of one Faith Emmanuel (Wife\u2019s sister).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the husband, Mr Emmanuel Utache, sustained different degrees of injuries and had been treated while rescue operation was concluded,\u201d Oke-Osanyintolu said.<\/p>\n<p>He said relevant agencies are working to ascertain the cause of the collapse.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the LASEMA boss disclosed that another truck fully loaded with 45,000 litres of petrol fell at the Otedola Bridge around 11 a:m on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Oke-Osanyintolu told NAN that all emergency responders had been activated and trans-loading of the content to prevent the truck from exploding had been done.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the truck had been recovered from the road to ensure free flow of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Oke-Osanyintolu said that trans-loading of 45000 litres of petrol was ongoing as at 5 p:m at the Otedola bridge on Lagos-Ibadan expressway.<\/p>\n<p>He warned against the use of fire around the area to prevent disaster.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, has confirmed that the collapsed storeyed building in Isheri Magodo, Lagos, killed a mother and three children. DAILY POST reports that in the wee hours of Saturday, a house caved in at Orisha community in Magodo. Four persons were feared dead. Oke-Osanyintolu told the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,5192,250],"class_list":["post-159878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-accident","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159878","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=159878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}