Scores of children trapped after collapse of Nigerian building
Lagos governor Akinwuni Ambode says the school was illegal
Lagos — An unknown number of people died and up to 100 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 dug away debris as thousands of people swarmed around the site to watch, many of them angry or hysterical. Also at the site were police, ambulances, Red Cross workers, fire trucks and a fork lift. Residents said about 100 children had attended the school, which was on the top levels of the building, and that eight had been rescued so far. A Reuters reporter saw a boy of 10 being pulled from the rubble, covered in dust but with no visible injuries, and the crowd erupted into cheers as another child was pulled out. Lagos governor Akinwuni Ambode visited the site and offered commiserations to bereaved families, but did not say how many had died. A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency’s southwest region said casualty figures were...
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