As many as 100 children and many others were feared trapped on Wednesday after a...
LAGOS - As many as 100 children and many others were feared trapped on Wednesday after a building containing a primary school collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos.
Workers on top of the rubble shoveled debris away as thousands of people swarmed around the rescue site — dozens watching from rooftops and hundreds more packed into the surrounding streets. At the site, many people were shouting and screaming. A fight almost broke out as anger at the collapse boiled over.
The building was in the Ita-faji area of Lagos island, the original heart of the lagoon city before it expanded onto the mainland.Nigeria is frequently hit by building collapses, with weak enforcement of regulations and poor construction materials often used. In 2016, more than 100 people were killed when a church came down in southeastern Nigeria.
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