Residents of Uzama Street, Off Oliha
Quartres, in Egor Local Government of Edo State, were on Friday thrown into
mourning when a section of a building
located on the street collapsed, killing no fewer than three persons.
Our correspondent gathered that the
building, operated by a popular
pentecostal church in Benin, caved in
when some youths in the area, hired by the management of the church, were carrying out a demolition exercise in order to create more space in the church compound.
One of the hired youths, who survived the incident disclosed that the owner of the building hired him for N3,000 per day. He told The PUNCH under condition of anonymity that, although nine of them were hired by the owner of the building, five of his colleagues were breaking the pillars of the building before tragedy struck.
He said that other survivors were taken to an undisclosed hospital in critical condition.

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