Eight dead, 37 rescued in catastrophic Nigeria school collapse

Eight people are dead in a collapsed school building and 37 people have been rescued alive, a Nigerian emergency official has said.

The statement by National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Ibrahim Farinloye does not say how many of the dead or rescued are children. Witnesses have said up to 100 children could have been in the primary school when the three-story building in Lagos collapsed. Rescue efforts are expected to continue into the night as hundreds of anxious people watch an excavator work under floodlights.

The school was operating "illegally" in the building, which is meant for residential purposes, said Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode."So far, we have rescued about 25 people and some already dead... the building is not technically a school, it is a residential building that was actually accommodating an illegal school, so to speak, on the second floor," he said.

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