Twelve people including the owner of the Jos building that collapsed, Alhaji Kabiru Nalele, his two wives and nine others died in the incident on Monday.

Director of Search and Rescue, Plateau State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mrs. Junni Bala, confirmed the number of deaths in Jos on Tuesday.

The two-storey building located at Butcher Line in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau collapsed on Monday evening.

Bala told our correspondent that four other people who were critically injured during the disaster were now receiving treatment in the hospital.

She said that the search and rescue operation had been completed.

Of the nine others that lost their lives in the incident, some were Nalele’s children.

NAN