{"id":165780,"date":"2019-11-06T11:56:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T10:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=165780"},"modified":"2019-11-06T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T10:58:41","slug":"policeman-killed-as-burning-building-collapses-in-lagos-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=165780","title":{"rendered":"Policeman killed as burning building collapses in Lagos Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Policeman-killed-as-burning-building-collapses-in-Lagos-Island.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The front section of the six-storey building gutted by fire on Tuesday in Lagos Island has collapsed, killing a policeman at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that two multi-storey buildings were gutted by fire at different locations in Lagos Island, destroying goods and property worth millions of naira.<\/p>\n<p>However, NAN reports that part of the six-storey building located at 43 Martins Street, Lagos Island, collapsed around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday as firemen continued spirited efforts at extinguishing the inferno.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the burning building collapsed on the policeman, severely injuring him while trying to control the surging crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the death, Mr Olanrewaju Elegushi, Special Adviser to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Lagos Central Business District, told NAN that the policeman died in hospital following injuries sustained in the building collapse.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The front section of the six-storey building gutted by fire on Tuesday in Lagos Island has collapsed, killing a policeman at the scene. DAILY POST had reported that two multi-storey buildings were gutted by fire at different locations in Lagos Island, destroying goods and property worth millions of naira. However, NAN reports that part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165781,"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":[2658,6425,250],"class_list":["post-165780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-building-collapse","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165780","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=165780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/165781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}