At least eight persons have been confirmed dead after a three-storey building collapsed in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos State.

NEMA officials, alongside other emergency response agencies including the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency and the police commenced a search and rescue operation immediately the building caved in late Sunday.

No fewer than 23 persons including children were said to have been rescued alive.

The Permanent Secretary, LASEMA, Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, in a statement late Sunday, had said some of the injured victims were rushed to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital for urgent treatment.