(MENAFN) Nigerian emergency management authorities declared that 15 bodies have been retrieved as 31 people were oulled out alive from the debris of a seven-storey building which crumbled last month in the southern city of Port Harcourt, the country's oil hub.
Ejike Martins, a coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency confirmed: "the peculiarity of this collapse is such that every floor fell directly on the other; the implication is that the debris will be removed bit by bit."
The building, in a Government Reserved Area of the prominent Nigerian city, was under construction when it broke down three weeks ago.
The slow pace of rescue mission at the scene had earlier triggered criticisms from local citizens.
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