BREAKING: Many trapped as popular Abuja hotel collapses [Video]

Many expressed fear and concern as a four-storey building connected to the Westbrook Hotel in the Garki region of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) fell on Monday night, July 1.

As of the time of filing this report, many customers and workers were said to have been trapped in the rubble while rescue operations persisted.

The Punch claims that a former governor of a state in the Southeast is supposedly the owner of the Westbrook Hotel.

Pleading anonymity, one eyewitness said that he saw two stranded individuals being hauled out from the debris and sent to the hospital and suggested that there could be fatalities.

“There is a possibility that there could be some people inside the collapsed building who may have died. I saw two people being pulled out from the rubble now and taken to the hospital while rescue operations are ongoing. The emergency responders are not coordinated yet for efficient operations,” he said.

As usual, netizens took to the comment section to share their thoughts on the unfortunate incident. TopNaija captured some of their reactions below;

@Simply_Tessy tweeted: “Inside that collapsed building, one side chick may have dragged a married man to his doom.”

@princechioke tweeted: “Look at the rumble of a building that got an approval and apparently monitored.”

@CryptoSheffy102 tweeted: “Just take a good look at the rumbles you can simply say substandard materials is the reason for this.”

Watch the video below;

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐛𝐮𝐣𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞

Many people were trapped when a four-storey building attached to the Westbrook Hotel in the Garki area of the Federal Capital Territory collapsed on Monday night.

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— Punch Newspapers (@MobilePunch) July 1, 2024