Family of six escapes death, as building collapsed in Anambra

A family of six, on Thursday evening, escaped death by the whiskers following the collapse of a two-storey building at Amawbia bypass, in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State.

Tribune Online gathered that the building owned by an engineer totally collapsed on another residential building and a shop.

It was gathered that among the six members of the trapped family, four sustained minor injuries while two were seriously injured and hospitalised.

Properties and goods worth over a million naira were also said to have been lost to the incident.

According to the head of the trapped family Mr Augustine Ikeji, who thanked God for saving his family, especially his two years old daughter, who was buried by the debris, the incident happened around eleven o’clock in the night.

On her part, the landlady of the affected residential building, a widow and the shop owner, Mrs Amaka Okonkwo’s goods were destroyed by the collapsed building, Mr Sunday Nwaezi blamed the incident on substandard materials, adding that the building started to give signs of collapse before its completion.

A tenant, Lady Ogechukwu Ndu, frowned at the action of the owner of the collapsed building, whom she said absconded on hearing the incident.

Ndu appealed to the state government to take action against him to serve as a deterrent to other substandard builders in the state.

Reacting, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Awka Capital Territory Development Authority, ACTDA, Venerable Amaechi Okwuosa, described the incident as unfortunate, pointing out that the building was built without adequate approval from ASUDEB.

Okwuosa who revoked the ownership of the land said, it now belongs to Anambra State Government as contained in relevant sections of the state laws on building collapse.

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