Twenty people were killed in Wednesday's collapse of a four-story building ...
LAGOS - Twenty people were killed in Wednesday’s collapse of a four-story building containing a primary school in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos and 45 others survived, the state health commissioner said on Friday.
Building collapses are frequent in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, where regulations are poorly enforced and construction materials are often substandard. Residents had said the school alone had around 100 pupils, although that figure was questioned by emergency officials. It was not clear how many children were in the building when the building collapsed.
“It is more than that. I’m thinking there are people who are still under the ground,” said Bukola Bejide, a local businesswoman who sells groceries, speaking a few meters from the site. Other people standing beside her nodded in agreement.
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