At least 21 students they were killed and 69 injured when their school collapsed in Central Nigeria Friday, a spokesman said Red Cross. Nuruddeen Hussain Magaji He said there were “21 dead and 69 injured” who were “all admitted to various hospitals.”
A journalist from theAFP he saw five bodies in the morgue of a hospital and 11 in another. Everyone was wearing school uniforms. At the site of the collapse the mechanical excavators were used to try to rescue victims trapped under the rubble, while the parents were desperately searching for their children. The crowd gathered around the collapsed concrete building and piles of rubble. The Jos authority They had previously said that “several pupils” had been killed in the partial collapse of the school.
«Devastated by the tragic loss of young lives at Saint Academy“, he wrote Christian Munduaterepresentative of theUnicefNigeriaon X. «Children full of dreams were taking their exams when the school building collapsed. Our sincere condolences to the families affected.” On his hospital bed, one of the injured students, Wulliya Ibrahim15, said he “went into the classroom” and “just five minutes later” he “heard a noise” before “finding himself here.”
L’National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) reported that a two-story building which hosted the Holy Academy in Busa Buji had collapsed, “killing several pupils”. A local resident, Chika Obiohahe said he saw at least eight bodies and many injured. «Everyone is trying to figure out how to save other people“, he said.
The correspondent of theAFP he said he saw eleven bodies in the morgue of theBingham University Hospital and other five corpses brought to theOur Lady of the Apostles Hospital Morgue in Jos. At least 15 students injured and rescued were admitted to hospital, hospital officials said. Officials from the Bingham Teaching Hospital they did not want to comment.
The cause of the collapse has not been clearly established, but according to local residents it occurred after three days of heavy rain. I building collapses they are not rare in Nigeriathe most populous country in Africa, due to the laxity in the application of building regulationsfrom the negligence and of theuse of low quality materials.
At least 45 people were killed in the 2021 in the collapse of a building under construction in the elegant neighborhood Ikoyi of Lagosthe economic capital of Nigeria. The following year, ten people were killed by the collapse of a three-story building in the neighborhood Ebute-Metta of Lagos. Since 2005, at least 152 buildings they collapsed to Lagosaccording to a South African university researcher who studies disasters in the construction sector.