Death toll rises to nine in collapsed Lagos school building

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LAGOS: Another body has been recovered from the rubble of a building housing a school that collapsed in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, rescue workers ...

People watch rescue workers at the site of a collapsed building containing a school in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, Nigeria on March 13, 2019. — Reuters: Another body has been recovered from the rubble of a building housing a school that collapsed in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos, rescue workers said Thursday, taking the death toll to nine.

The dilapidated building in the densely populated Lagos Island area of the city came down without warning on Wednesday morning. School bags, toys and clothes were among the piles of rubble as a bulldozer tried to clear a path through wreckage. Another local, Zion Munachi, also confirmed the name and the number of pupils. Both said not all children were at the school because of sports activities.

 

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