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The Rivers State Government, on Thursday, said an investigation had commenced to unravel the circumstances surrounding the collapse of a two-storey building that injured no fewer than four persons on Rumuoke Street, off Okilton Junction, Ada George Road, in the Port Harcourt area of the state.

The state governor, Siminalayi Fubara, in a statement by his media aide, Boniface Onyedi, charged relevant government agencies to immediately fish out those involved in the project and said the state government must find out the immediate and remote causes of the incident.

The statement read in part, “The Ministry of Urban Development is to take immediate action by conducting site investigations and site inspections.

“The destructive testing and non-destructive testing of collapsed structural elements to establish their strength by the determination of the yield strength of the reinforcements and sieve analysis of the soil at the site, to ascertain the immediate and remote causes of the building collapse.