The scary moment a three-story building still under construction collapsed at Ofankor, a suburb of Accra, has been captured on tape and shared on social media.
According to the report originally shared by Graphic Online, the caretaker of this edifice, which has reached the roofing level, woke up on Saturday morning to discover that the pillars were sinking, and right after 30 minutes of noticing the anomaly, the building collapsed.
On social media, a video of the incident was posted (see attachment below). According to a Police Situational Report (SITREP) obtained by Graphic Online and verifying the occurrence, on Saturday, September 23, 2023, at around 11.20 GMT, the police were informed that a story structure had collapsed at the Ofankor chicken farm in Accra.
When the police arrived at the scene to gather information, they were greeted by the home’s caretaker. The unfinished three-story building’s pillars were observed to be slowly sinking to the ground when the caretaker woke up at around 09:30 GMT, according to the caretaker’s account to the police.
After roughly 30 minutes of sinking, the entire structure abruptly came crashing to the ground. There was no loss of life.
