BY NWABUEZE  OKONKWO

Onitsha— No fewer than four vehicles were, Saturday, smashed by a five-storey building which collapsed at 7, Aloy Offia Crescent, Old Mercedes Lorry Spare Parts Market, Nkpor, an outskirts of the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State.

The building, which was at roofing stage, according to eye‑witnesses, collapsed at about 8 a.m, but no casualty was recorded as there was nobody residing in it except the vehicles parked in front of it.

According to the source, the ground floor of the building was erected years ago and was being used as a private nursery school until about two years ago when the owner sold it.

The source stated that the buyer, who is a businessman, had engaged the services of a contractor to add the five other floors to the existing ground floor.

The source hinted that the structure was completed few months ago and because the owner had just bought another uncompleted building in Lagos and decided to upgrade it immediately, so he suspended the roofing of the collapsed building, pending when the Lagos building would be completed.