Nigeria, April 21 -- As of Sunday morning, fve people have been confirmed dead and 13 others rescued following the collapse on Saturday of a three-storey building in the Ojodu Berger area of Lagos State.

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) on Sunday confirmed that the survivors-mostly adult females-were rescued and are currently receiving pre-hospital care at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

The building, which housed the popular Equal Right Restaurant, reportedly crashed down around 8 a.m. while undergoing additional construction to convert it into a four-storey structure.

Eyewitnesses said the site had shown visible signs of structural distress long before the collapse. But they kept developing it alleging tha...