Six individuals sustained injuries after a two-storey building under construction collapsed in Jikwoyi, within the Abuja Municipal Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
The structure caved in at approximately 11 a.m. while workers were present on-site, triggering an emergency response from relevant authorities.
In a statement, Nkechi Isa, head of public affairs at the FCT Emergency Management Department (FEMD), said rescue operations are ongoing to ensure no one remains trapped beneath the debris.
According to FEMD, 17 workers were on the upper floor of the building when the incident occurred.
“Rescue efforts are ongoing to ensure no person is trapped in the rubble of a collapsed two-storey building in Jikwoyi, Abuja Municipal Area Council of the FCT,” the statement reads.
“FEMD search and rescue team says that 17 workers were on the upper floor of the building when it collapsed, injuring five workers and trapping a lone male who was at the ground level of the building.”
FEMD added that the injured workers, along with those rescued, were taken to the Sisters of Nativity Hospital in Jikwoyi, where they are reportedly responding to treatment.
Emergency responders at the scene include personnel from the FCT Emergency Management Department, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Department of Development Control, the Engineering Department of the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA), the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), the Federal Fire Service (FFS), and the FCT Police Command.
The agency noted that excavation at the site is “still ongoing until ground zero to ensure that no person is trapped in the rubble.”
In a separate development, a fire outbreak affected part of a car sales and service centre along the Kubwa Expressway in Bwari Area Council.
The statement said the fire broke out around noon on Friday at the Earloha Chery Centre located at Arab Junction in Kubwa.
Monday Adie, head of FEMD’s search and rescue team, stated that “no lives were lost in the fire incident.”
He added that workers at the centre managed to move vehicles out of the premises after initial attempts to control the fire with extinguishers failed.
A section of the building was completely destroyed, with equipment and documents lost in the blaze.