The Accra Mayor, Michael Kpakpo Allotey, has confirmed that one more person has succumbed to the collapse of the four-storey building at Avenor in North Kaneshie.
According to him, the latest casualty is one of the two survivors who were rescued from the rubble, adding that among the three dead is the owner of a Mothercare shop that was operating within the collapsed structure.
Four people in total were caught up in the collapse when the building came down in the early hours of Sunday, June 7, 2026.
Emergency service providers earlier retrieved two victims alive and rushed them to the hospital, while two others were found dead. One of the hospitalised victims has since succumbed to their injuries, bringing the confirmed death toll to three.
The four-storey building which is believed to have been constructed around 2020 housed both residential and commercial occupants, including the Mothercare shop.
While investigations into the cause of the collapse are ongoing, engineers from the Ghana Institute of Engineers who visited the site have raised serious concerns, pointing to the apparent absence of a building permit from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly and visibly substandard concrete that is unlikely to meet basic structural strength requirements.
A structural engineer, Emmanuel Aidoo, had warned that a building of that size cannot be put up without proper engineering oversight.
“These structures have to be engineered. You can’t just use your mind to construct such buildings. It’ll come back and hunt you,” he said.
Investigators are still working to ascertain the real cause of the collapse, with formal tests, including concrete sampling and structural modelling, yet to be completed.
The collapse at Avenor is the second in the capital within a week, following an earlier one that came down at Adenta New Site on June 3, killing one person and injuring four others.
