A Nigerian emergency official says eight people are dead in a collapsed school building and 37 people have been rescued alive. As many as 100 children were feared trapped on Wednesday after a building containing a private school collapsed in the country's commercial capital Lagos, an emergency agency spokesperson said. School said to be set up illegallyRescue efforts are underway in Nigeria after a three-storey school building collapsed while classes were in session, with scores of children thought to be inside at the time. (Sunday Alamba/The Associated Press)"The third floor of the building was housing a private school in the area," said Farinloye, adding the three-storey building came down at around 10 a.m. local time. People help a child after he was rescued from the scene of the building collapse in Lagos.

Source: CBC News March 13, 2019 13:12 UTC