A midnight building collapse in Kabak village, Kirikasamma Local Government Area of Jigawa State, has claimed one life and left seven others injured.
Gatekeeper’s News reports that the council’s information officer, Musa Muhammad, confirmed the incident in a statement on Sunday. According to him, the incident occurred around midnight on Friday following heavy rainfall.
He said, “I gathered that seven persons got serious injuries while one person died at Kabak village in Kirikasamma Local Government Area.”
“The incident happened midnight, Friday, after which five of the victims were hospitalised while the remaining two were treated and discharged.”
The spokesman added that Muhammad Maji, chairman of the council, had visited the scene and provided N500,000 to offset medical costs for the injured, while the family of the deceased received N100,000 in emergency relief.
The incident comes barely a month after a three-storey building collapsed in Abuja’s Lifecamp area, where a Nigerien national was rescued nearly 10 hours after being trapped beneath the rubble.
