2 dead, 8 rescued as building collapse in Kano.
The Kano state fire services has rescued ten person trapped in a collapse building at Gwammja' yan kosa' in Dala Local Government Area. Malamute Said Muhammad, spokesman for the services, confirmed this in a statement on Tuesday in Kano.
"We recieved a distress call at 1:30am on Tuesday from one Malam Abdullahi Muhammad.
" On receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team to the scene at about 1:37am.
We discovered that the house, a one storeyed building, collapsed on 10 dwellers and that they were covered by broken blocks and sands," Muhammad said.
He said that eight out of ten people in the building were rescued alive and taken to murtala muhammed specialist hospital, Kano for medical care, while the rest two were found died and their remains evacuated to hospital were they were confirmed died.
He Advises residents in the state to be conscious of their environment and avoid living in dilapidated buildings, emotional reports.
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