The Plateau State Emergency Management (SEMA) Agency has said that twelve people had died and one other was critically injured during Monday’s building collapse in Jos.
The News Agency f Nigeria (NAN) reports that the two-storeyed building located at Butcher Lane in Jos North Local Government Area of the state belonging to one Alhaji Rufai Kabiru collapsed on Monday evening.
Twelve people including the owner of the building, Alhaji Kabiru Nalele, his two wives and nine others died in the Jos building collapse incident on Monday.
Mrs Junni Bala, Director of Search and Rescue, Plateau State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), confirmed the number of deaths to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on Tuesday.
Bala said that four other people who were critically injured during the disaster were now receiving treatment in the hospital.
She said that the search and rescue operation had been completed.
NAN gathered that of the nine others that lost their lives in the incident, some were Nalele’s children.
