Construction of a school in Nigeria collapsed: at least 100 children were trapped

A three-story building housing a primary school collapsed Wednesday in the Nigerian city of Lagos. More than 100 children trapped, according to the regional government.

Rescue teams try to recover the bodies, but it is feared that children will be on the verge of death when the collapse took place.

"Rescue operations of the Lagos State Rescue Unit are underway in a building that has collapsed in the Lagiaji area on the island of Lagos", said the state government on his Twitter account. .

It is a three-storey building, which housed a primary school in the latter, located in the Island of Lagos, a city core that is connected by road to the rest of the city and serves as a dike to Lagos Lagoon.

A witness to the tragedy, Prince Adams, quoted by the local newspaper The punch, said that They kidnapped 10 students from the rubble without specifying whether they were alive or dead., while the area is completely crowded with people. "It's terrible, parents are crying," Adams told the newspaper.

Local media reported that more than a hundred children could be trapped, while some students have already been transferred to a nearby hospital.

(With EFE information)