One child was killed on Saturday after a three-storey building collapsed at Freeman Street, in the Lagos Island area of Lagos State.

Officials say the incident occurred in the early hours of the day when the victims were asleep and that six victims were rescued alive from the rubble of the collapsed building.

Confirming the incident, the Director-General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the corpse had been taken to the mortuary, adding that on-the-spot treatment had been administered to the rescued victims.

He said, “The Agency responded to emergency calls on the collapsed building at Freeman Street, in the Lagos Island area of Lagos State.

“Upon arrival at the incident scene at 4am, a three-storey building was discovered to have totally collapsed on people asleep inside. Six victims have been extricated from the rubble alive while a single male child was recovered dead.”