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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Thursday, confirmed the death of two persons and two others injured in a two-storey building that collapsed at Noman’s Land in Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State, North West Nigeria.
NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuraddeen Abdullahi, confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano.
“The agency received a distress call today at about 2:00 a.m from a good samaritan that a two-storey building collapsed at Noman’s Land Quarters, Kano.
“On receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team to the scene.
“Four persons rescued by our team were husband, wife and two children; out of the victims, the two children were confirmed dead, while the couple were rushed to Armed Forces Specialist Hospital, Kano for treatment,” Abdullahi said.
He noted that the search and rescue operations were still ongoing to rescue trapped persons in the building at the time of filing this report.
NAN reports that, Kano State Fire Service, Police, Red Cross, NSCDC, SEMA and others were among the search and rescue team. – NAN
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