TWO BROTHERS DIE AS HOTEL FENCE COLLAPSES ON BUILDING IN LAGOS

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By ‘Leke Yusuf

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has disclosed that two brothers aged nine and seven years old died as the fence of an hotel collapsed on a building in Ikorodu, on Saturday.

While giving a report of the incident, the permanent secretary of LASEMA, Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu; gave the names of the deceased as Gbolahan and Yinka Atolagbe.

SITUATION REPORT ON COLLAPSE BUILDING (HOTEL FENCE) AT 38 COMMUNITY ROAD AND 25, ALAO STREET OPPOSITE IYEWA ROAD, OLAINUKAN BUS STOP, INWARD ISHAWO BUS STOP IKORODU.

Upon arrival at the incident scene, a single-storey building (Hotel fence) at No 38 COMMUNITY Road was found to have collapsed on a three-bedroom flat (Bungalow) at no 25 Alao Street behind the hotel.

Further investigation revealed that the said building fence was weakened by poor drainage resulting in its collapse on the house No 25 Alao Street.

Two young boys aged Seven years and Nine years old boy named Gbolahan and Yinka Atolagbe lost their lives. They have since been buried according to Muslim rites.

The Agency’s LRT, Lagos State Fire Service, LNSC, LABCA and the Community Excos are the responders at the incident scene.

The building has been cordoned off by the Agency’s LRT to avoid secondary incident and handed over to LABCA.

Saturday 22nd July 2023
Dr Olufemi Damilola Oke-Osanyintolu
PS LASEMA