Eight rescued from collapsed building in Abuja

Rescue workers and neighbours rescued eight persons from a two-storey building, which collapsed at Gwarinpa Housing Estate, Abuja early on Monday morning.
Spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Malam Yakubu Shuaibu, said that the building collapsed around 1a.m.
Shuaibu said the building, located at Naval Quarters, was undergoing renovation and that “some labourers hired to work on it also live inside”.
He said rescue workers from NEMA, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) arrived at the scene and dug through the rubble in search of survivors.
The NEMA spokesperson said rescue workers searched the rubble with a life locator to determine if other people were still trapped.
Shuaibu said some eight persons were trapped in the building and that neighbours rescued three of the occupants before the arrival of the rescue workers.