LATEST: LAGOS BUILDING COLLAPSED DEATH TOLL HIT 11 AS A BOY OF 11 YEARS OLD RESCUED AFTER LEGS WERE AMPUTATED

Four - Storey Collapsed Building

Farinloye described the latest survivor  as 11-year-year-old boy, was rescued, saying further, said rescuers had to cut off his leg before he could be pull out 

A four-storey residential building collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, and killed at least 11 people, including a child, emergency officials and an Associated Press photographer in Lagos said Wednesday.

Authorities said that at least 15 people had been rescued from the rubble of the building that collapsed Tuesday afternoon.

“There was confusion everywhere . after we were able to dig out, one of my sons came out unscratched through the grace of God but one of them, my last born, 12 years of age, Emeka, was crushed to death,” said a survivor, Egwumu Chienye.

Government officials did not immediately say what caused the collapse in a poor neighborhood of the sprawling city of about 21 million people. Rescue efforts continued overnight and into Wednesday morning.

An Associated Press photographer at the scene saw three bodies pulled from the rubble Wednesday, hours after emergency officials put the death toll at five. Relatives wailed as bodies were carried away.

It was not clear how many people were living in the building. Some people were rescued before emergency officials arrived, said Adesina Tiamiyu, general manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency.

Meanwhile, at aboout 11:35 a.m., three more bodies were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building, bringing the total bodies recovered 11.

Emergency officials earlier Wednesday said five people had died in Tuesday’s collapse. It is not known how many people had been inside the building in a poor neighborhood of Lagos.

Officials have not said what caused the collapse. Rescue efforts continued overnight and into Wednesday morning.