Death toll uncertain in wake of Lagos school building collapse

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Families kept a vigil at a hospital on Thursday for children pulled from the wreckage of a collapsed school building in the Nigerian city of Lagos, as rescue operations came to an end.

At the site of the collapse on Thursday morning, people searched through the tangle of rubble and metal to find any belongings of their loved ones."We have been able to pull down the remaining part of the building," said Adebayo Kayende, spokesman for the Lagos state emergency agency.

Kayende said the Lagos state ministry of health was checking with hospitals and once they had finished counting those dead the details would be made public. An AFP reporter at the scene saw at least eight people pulled from the wreckage, including a small boy with blood on his face. Covered in dust, he was alive but unconscious and appeared to be badly hurt. "We were smoking outside when the building just collapsed," Olamide Nuzbah told AFP in pidgin English. As rescuers worked furiously to reach those inside, distraught parents begged them to find their children.

 

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that doesn't look much like a vigil to me, more like chaos.

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