The Edo State Government has announced that all the students trapped in the collapsed three-storey building on Ekhator Street, off Ekosodin Road beside the University of Benin, Benin City, have been rescued.
Naija News earlier reported that several students of the University of Benin were trapped in a three-storey building that collapsed in Ekosodin on Saturday morning.
The storey building on Ekhator Street, collapsed during the early morning rainfall in the state.
However, the Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media Projects, Crusoe Osagie, stated that there were no fatalities and investigation is ongoing to unravel the immediate and remote causes of the incident.
He disclosed the development via a statement.
Osagie said, “The government confirms the collapse of a three-storey building in Ekhator Street, off Ekosodin Road, beside the University of Benin, Ugbowo, Benin City.
“A rescue team was deployed to the site of the incident and all the trapped students have…