{"id":1750,"date":"2014-09-13T04:26:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T04:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1750"},"modified":"2014-09-13T04:26:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T04:26:40","slug":"about-50-persons-including-several-foreigners-killed-as-tb-joshua-synagogue-church-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=1750","title":{"rendered":"About 50 persons including several foreigners killed as TB Joshua Synagogue Church collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"

No fewer than\u00a050 persons have been feared dead, with several others injured during the collapse of a six-storey building in the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun, Lagos on Friday.<\/p>\n

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigerian at the scene reports that ambulances were seen taking people out of the collapse building to the Isolo General Hospital.<\/p>\n

There had yet to be an official confirmation of the number of casualties.<\/p>\n

Policemen were on the ground dispersing crowds, who were gathered outside the gate of the collapse building.<\/p>\n

An eyewitness, who spoke to NAN on anonymity, said that the building collapse at around 1.30pm.<\/p>\n

He said the building, which usually serves as a guest house for some foreigners and people from the neighbouring African countries, was completed four months ago.<\/p>\n

The eyewitness added that the building, which was a four-storey building, was converted to six-storey building to accommodate more of its visitors.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe were all surprised with this incidence. At around 1.30pm, the building collapsed while people were inside.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis building was a four-storey building but it was converted to seven,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

NAN also observed that Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, National Emergency Management Agency and the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps were also on the ground.<\/p>\n

LASEMA officials were denied access into the premises of the church while journalists were also chased away from the scene of the incidence.<\/p>\n

People, who attempted to take pictures of the scene were harassed by members of the church.\"Synagogueex\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No fewer than\u00a050 persons have been feared dead, with several others injured during the collapse of a six-storey building in the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Ikotun, Lagos on Friday. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigerian at the scene reports that ambulances were seen taking people out of the collapse building to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[71,70],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","tag-synagogue-church-of-all-nations","tag-tb-joshua"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Synagogueex.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-se","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}