100 schoolchildren feared trapped after building collapses in Nigeria
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.
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. The Lagos emergency management agency said 10 people had been recovered alive since emergency responders arrived, and others beforehand.
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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