100 children, many others feared trapped in collapse of Nigeria building that housed school
LAGOS - At least one person was killed and dozens of children were among those feared trapped after a four-storey building containing a primary school collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos on Wednesday.
Workers on top of the rubble shoveled debris away as thousands of people swarmed around the site to watch, many of them angry or distraught. Police, ambulances, Red Cross workers, fire trucks and a fork lift were on the scene. A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency’s southwest region said many people, including children, were believed to be trapped.
A woman reacts at the site of a collapsed building containing a school in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos, Nigeria March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde Adeshida, whose younger sister was the mother of the children, said she was angry because people had complained about the building for the last 12 years.
A Google photograph of the collapsed building from early 2017 shows no sign of a school inside. The fourth storey only had the words “Olulade Villa ” painted across its balcony.
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