Heavy rains brought down the pyramid-shaped wooden school, built on a platform held afloat by hundreds of plastic barrels, on Tuesday. The aid-funded Makoko Floating School offered free education to children from nearby huts on stilts. Updated Thu, June 9th 2016 at 00:03 GMT +3Residents work to dismantle the Makoko floating school after it collapsed in the Makoko fishing community on the Lagos lagoon, Nigeria June 8, 2016. It collapsed many houses surrounding the floating school," said David Shemede, Makoko resident and brother to the school's director. NIGERIA: A floating school built to withstand storms and floods at a lagoon in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos and educate children from a nearby slum has collapsed only seven months after its official opening.

Source: Standard Digital June 08, 2016 16:52 UTC