Three persons have been confirmed dead and three others hospitalised in another Jos building collapsed.
Blueprint correspondent exclusively reporting from the scene said the incident happened at an obscured environment situated at Anguwan Rogo settlement of Jos North local government area of Plateau State.
An official of the Red Cross, coordinating Anguwan Rogo community, Mahmud Adamu Abdullahi, confirmed the incident.
He said: “This building has collapsed, upon getting the information we rushed to the scene.
“We can’t confirmed how many that are dead so far, but I know we have rescued three persons, two men and woman sustained injuries and we have taken them to hospital.”
An eye and resident of the area who didn’t want his name mentioned said; “It was a flat building, and later a decking was constructed, with another room built on it, it suddenly collapsed in early hours of Monday.”
He said two persons – a man and woman, instantly died, another man died later.
“We have observed funeral prayers for the three dead persons,” he said.
The Police spokesperson, Plateau State Command DSP, Typev Terna, could not pick several calls put across to his phone, as at the time of filling this report.
Source: blueprintng
