Nigeria: 18-Month-Old Girl, 3 Others Die in Imo Building Collapse

14 August 2017

Owerri — A man was, in the early hours of yesterday, saved from the cold hand of death as he reportedly stepped out of his room to smoke a stick of cigarette only for the building to collapse, killing an 18-month old girl, Osinachi Nnabue, and four others.

About eight persons were rescued from debris of the three-storey building that collapsed on Fire Service/Mbaise Road in Owerri municipality, even as rescue operation was still on going at the time of filing this report.

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