The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), on Thursday, confirmed two persons dead and two injured after a two-storey building collapsed at Nomanβs Land Fagge Local Government Area of Kano State.
Dr Nuraddeen Abdullahi, NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, confirmed the incident in Kano.
He said, βThe agency received a distress call today about 2 a.m from a Good Samaritan that a two-storey building collapsed at Nomanβs Land Quarters, Kano.
βOn receiving the information, we quickly sent our rescue team to the scene.
βFour 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 treatmentβ Abdullahi said.
He noted that the search and rescue operations were still ongoing to rescue trapped persons in the building.
The Kano State Fire Service, Police, Red Cross, NSCDC, SEMA and others were among the search and rescue team.
