Rescuers comb through the rubble of a high-rise building in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos in search of survivors a day after it collapsed while under construction, as the death toll rose to 16 with several others reported missing.
The Lagos state government said it had put its chief architect on indefinite suspension and launched an independent investigation of the causes of the collapse of what was to have become a high-end apartment block.
Lagos state government had sealed off the building site in June for failing to meet structural requirements and demanded the anomaly be corrected before construction could proceed, state deputy governor Obafemi Hamzat said in a statement. He did not say whether that problem had been rectified. Hamzat said the number of people trapped was unknown but that interviews with workers indicated up to 40 were on site when the building collapsed, much lower than an initial figure of 100 given by witnesses on Monday.Pius Utomi Ekpei / AFP - Getty Images
As tempers flared, a few got into a scuffle with government officials, demanding to be allowed to help with the search effort.
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