Nigeria, July 28 -- Two students have been confirmed dead, while three others were injured in the collapse of a three-storey hostel building in Anambra State.

The Acting Executive Secretary of the Anambra State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Ndidi Omega, confirmed this in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday morning.

This newspaper earlier reported that some undergraduates were feared to be trapped in the rubble after the building collapsed.

The incident, PREMIUM TIMES gathered, happened on Sunday night at Amaokpala, Oko, in the Orumba North Local Government Area of the state.

The structure, identified as the Elite Five Star Lodge, was primarily occupied by students of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko.

Speaking to PREMIUM TIME...