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One of the sub contractors responsible for the construction of a building at Cantoments in Accra which collapsed on Saturday has dismissed reports that the materials his outfit used for the construction of the building were inferior. A carpenter who was trapped under the building was killed when the building collapsed while twelve other persons sustained various degrees of injuries. The collapsed building, according to the Police, was a restaurant under construction. Speaking to Citi News, the Lebanese contractor who only gave his name as Yaw said the incident was purely an accident and ruled out any act of negligence. �What happened is an accident, if you look at the construction any layman will see that the quality of the material there is very strong. Be it the concrete, be it the iron whatever it is. We keep insisting it was an accident because only an accident can make such a thing to happen and not the quality of the material.� Meanwhile the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Police Command ASP Effia Tenge has said twelve persons were immediately sent to the Police Hospital and the 37 military hospital respectively for treatment after the incident �but six of them have been treated and discharged.� There have been many such incidents across the country in the last few years, claiming several lives. In March a storey building collapsed at Nii Boye Town in Accra killing one person while the other In July 2014, 0ver 40 people escaped unhurt after a storey building partially collapsed at Bubiashie in Accra.