A collapsed fence on Wednesday reportedly killed two persons and injured four others in Abuja.
The victims, who are artisans, were said to be working on a building project still at foundation stage when the fence of an adjoining house at the Ademola Adetokunbo Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja reportedly fell on them
It was learnt that the workers have encroached on the fence of the adjoining building, part of which collapsed on them.
The Director General of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in Abuja, Alhaji Abbas Idriss, who confirmed the incident to newsmen, said the injured victims had been taken to the hospital.
His words: “Between 10.00am and 11.00am, we received a distress call that there was a building collapse in Wuse 2 and we had to draft our rescue team to quickly go there. In getting there, they discovered that it was a wall that fell on the artisans working around the area. So far, six people were removed from the rubbles and two were fatally injured and four are in the hospital at the moment. Two people died.
“The cause is that the developer encroached into another building, that is, the UBA building and the wall fell on them.”
