A mother and her two male children have been rescued from the rubbles of a collapsed building by officials of the Kano State Fire Service.
The woman and her boys were said to have been trapped in the collapsed building at Makwarari axis of Kano Municipal Local Government Area on Friday, August 30, 2024.
According to the spokesperson of the service, Saminu Abdullahi, the building is a dwelling house of a one-storey building of 30ft. by 40 ft.
Mr Abdullahi said, āWe received an emergency call on Friday, around 9:30a.m, from our control room by one of our staff members, Ibrahim Isah, that a building collapsed.
āUpon receiving the information, we quickly dispatched firemen to the scene,ā he added.
He also stated that the victims were rescued alive and taken to Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano, for treatment.
The service listed the names of the victims as Balaraba Abba (mother), 35, Abdulnasir Jilani, 12, and Abdullahi Jilani, 9.
It stated that the cause of the incident was under investigation.