National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), said, it has so far recovered nine dead bodies from the rubbles of a collapsed building beside a primary school following explosions from gas cylinder at Aba Road, Sabon Gari area of Kano.
The agency’s spokesman, Manzo Ezekiel,who disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday,said the Director General of NEMA, Habib Ahmed was at the site of the incident where coordinated the rescue operations.
The statement said the agency’s boss mobilized excavators being used for the rescue operations, assuring that, NEMA’s team will ensure complete removal of the rubbles to retrieve all trapped persons.
He also instructed the NEMA rescue team to remain at the site until conclusion of the rescue and to work together with security agencies and other response organisations present at the location.
He added:”NEMA is presently coordinating the rescue operations involving members Nigerian Red Cross, military, the Nigerian Police, Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, Kano SEMA.”
The nine dead bodies recovered from the collapsed building in Kano after the explosion from a gas cylinder in Sabon Gari area of Kano State have been deposited in the morgue at Armed Forces Hospital, Kano.