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Building Roof Collapses In Taraba, Kills One

The incident occurred within the premises of the Taraba State University in Jalingo.


Map of Taraba
A map of Taraba, a state in Nigeria’s North-East region

 

At least one person has been confirmed dead with others injured following a rooftop construction that caved in on an uncompleted building.

The incident occurred within the premises of the Taraba State University in Jalingo on Friday.

Eyewitnesses mostly students who preferred anonymity said the wood used to support the iron roof was not strong enough to hold it as the crane lowered which resulted in the incident.

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According to the information officer of the institution, Sanusi Sa’ad, the building project is not handled by the school management but by a contractor whose worker is said to have died, hence cannot make further comment on the incident.

All efforts to reach out to the contractor or the name of his company proved abortive at the time of filing this report.

The police have yet to make any comment on the incident.