A two-storey building collapsed on Monday at Baale Street in Ajuwon/Akute, a border community between Lagos and Ogun states, leaving several persons feared trapped beneath the rubble.
Three persons, including a grandmother, her toddler grandchild and another man, were rescued from the debris and taken to a hospital for treatment.
The cause of the collapse was not immediately known as of the time of filing this report.
The Ogun State Emergency Management Agency was contacted to conduct search-and-rescue operations, but its team had not arrived at the scene when this report was filed.
Hadizat Giwa