A child is rescued from the rubble of the collapsed building in Lagos. Anguished families crowded around the flattened remains of the building, which housed an elementary school, holding out hope that more children would still be found alive in the wreckage. As many as 100 children had been in the primary school on the building's top floors, witnesses said. It was not immediately clear why the building collapsed, but such disasters are all too common in Nigeria, where new construction often goes up without regulatory oversight and floors are added to already unstable buildings. The collapse came as Buhari, newly elected to a second term as president, tries to improve groaning, inefficient infrastructure in Africa's most populous nation.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 13, 2019 21:11 UTC