CHILDREN TRAPPED AS BUILDING COLLAPSES IN NIGERIA

AT least one person was killed and dozens of children were among those feared trapped after a building containing a primary school collapsed in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos.

Workers shovelled rubble away as thousands of people swarmed around the site to watch, many of them angry or distraught. Police and other emergency services were at the scene to help free trapped survivors.

Lagos State Emergency Management Agency general manager Adeshina Tiamiyu said the agency had rescued almost 50 people and recorded one death so far.

Residents said about 100 children had attended the school, which was located on the top levels of the four-storey building.

A spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency’s southwest region said many people, including children, were believed to be trapped. Lagos Governor Akinwuni Ambode visited the site and offered condolences to bereaved families.

Mr Ambode said the school had been set up illegally and that buildings in the area had been undergoing structural testing prior to the accident.

Picture: AP TRAGEDY: A child is rescued from the rubble of the collapsed building in Lagos, Nigeria, which housed a primary school on its higher levels