We begin the World News at six where Nine yet-to-be-identified ladies who were trapped when a storey building around Akinwunmi Street, Mende, in the Maryland area of Lagos State, sunk due to torrential rainfall, got rescued today.
The Lagos Territorial Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the development in a statement.
He said the agency’s officials were deployed to rescue the victims after receiving a distress call about the emergency.
Farinloye said while speaking with one of the trapped victims, one Blessing, she said they were up to nine people, mostly women, who were trapped when the building started sinking after being submerged.
IBrahim Farinloye confirmed the rescue of the trapped ladies
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