After a building collapse resulted in the death of at least 10 people, a relative of of th victims has spoken up about what is believed to be her final act on earth.
She was praying.
Recall that a three-storey building located at 32, Ibadan Street in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos, collapsed on Sunday night, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries.
“We were on the next street when we suddenly saw dust around the place where the building collapsed on Ibadan Street. When we got there, I realised that my husband’s mother was there,” Punch quoted Bukola Ibiyemi, who lost her mother-in-law and a family friend (Habeeb) to the incident, to have said on Tuesday.
“One of the people who followed me to the place went home to call my husband, who informed his relatives, and they all came to the place. My husband’s younger brother, Abu, was rescued alive from the rubble.
“But Habeeb’s corpse had swollen when they retrieved it. They were also able to locate the corpse of my husband’s mother, Hauwa; she was observing salat (Islamic prayers) when the building collapsed and the rubble fell on her back.
“Both Habeeb and mama’s corpses were recovered in the early hours of Monday. Mama has been buried in her hometown in Kwara State, while Habeeb was buried in Lagos. Habeeb was the younger brother of my husband’s friend.”
