Nigeria school building collapse killed 20 people - Lagos health official


  • World
  • Friday, 15 Mar 2019

LAGOS (Reuters) - Twenty people were killed and 45 others survived in Wednesday's collapse of a four-storey building containing a primary school in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, the state health commissioner said on Friday.

Commissioner Jide Idris gave no details of how many children were among the dead but he said 10 children and four adults were still receiving medical help.

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