More people have died after being taken to hospital in the wake of the collapse ...
LAGOS - More people have died after being taken to hospital in the wake of the collapse of a building housing a school in the Nigerian city of Lagos, an emergency agency official said on Thursday.
Adesina Tiamiyu, the general manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, declined to give a total figure for casualties, saying they were still being worked out. Residents said around 100 children had attended the nursery and primary school, housed on the top levels of the building which collapsed on Wednesday in the Ita-faji area of the Lagos island district in Nigeria’s commercial capital.By Thursday morning the site had been cleared out and rescue workers had found a body at 03:00 local time , Tiamiyu told reporters at the collapse.
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