LAGOS (Reuters) - The death toll from the collapse of a four-storey building in Nigeria's biggest city Lagos rose to 11 on Wednesday, some of them children, a police spokesman and Reuters witnesses said.
The residential building in the densely-populated Idi-Araba neighbourhood collapsed late on Tuesday. Its concrete floors concertinaed, trapping scores of people inside and sending twisted metal and rubble onto surrounding streets.
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