BREAKING: A Nigerian emergency official says eight people are dead in a collapsed school building and 37 people have been rescued alive.
A Nigerian emergency official says eight people are dead in a collapsed school building and 37 people have been rescued alive.
Rescue efforts are expected to continue into the night as hundreds of anxious people watch an excavator work under floodlights.An emergency official confirms deaths in the collapse of a three-story school building in Nigeria but refuses to give a toll as search and rescue efforts continue.Official Shina Tiamiyu says the emphasis is on finding survivors. Workers have pulled more than 40 people, dead and alive, from the ruins.
The evening call to prayer has been heard as hundreds of anxious people watch in the heart of the country’s commercial capital, Lagos. Nigeria’s president says that “it touches one to lose precious lives in any kind of mishap, particularly those so young and tender.”The general manager of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency says more than 40 people have been rescued from a Nigeria school building collapse.
It is not known how many students were in the primary school on the top floor, or how many have died.
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