'Twenty corpses were brought to Lagos state mortuaries from the site, 45 survivors were received and were managed by government health facilities,' Idris said in a statement.
Emergency personnel rescue a child at the site of a building which collapsed in Lagos on Wednesday.Twenty people were killed and 45 others survived in Wednesday's collapse of a four-storey building containing a primary school in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, the state health commissioner said on Friday.
Commissioner Jide Idris gave no details of how many children were among the dead but he said 10 children and four adults were still receiving medical help. "Twenty corpses were brought to Lagos state mortuaries from the site, 45 survivors were received and were managed by government health facilities," Idris said in a statement.
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