(13 Jul 2024)
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Jos, Nigeria – 12 July 2024
1. STILL of student being rescued after building collapse
2. Various STILLS of people gathered around collapsed building
3. STILL of injured person being carried away from site
4. STILL of people gathered around collapsed building
STORYLINE:
A two-storey school collapsed during morning classes Friday in north-central Nigeria, killing 22 students and sending rescuers on a frantic search for more than 100 people trapped in the rubble, authorities said.
The Saints Academy college in Plateau state’s Jos city collapsed shortly after students, many of whom were 15 years old or younger, arrived for classes.
A total of 154 students were trapped but 132 of them were rescued and were being treated for injuries in various hospitals, Plateau police spokesman Alfred Alabo said. Twenty-two students were killed.
Rescue and health workers as well as security forces had been deployed at the scene immediately after the collapse, said Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.
The state government blamed the tragedy on the school’s “weak structure and location near a riverbank."
It urged schools facing similar issues to close down.
Dozens of villagers gathered near the school, some weeping and others offering to help, as excavators combed through the debris.
Building collapses are becoming common in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country with more than a dozen such incidents recorded in the last two years.
Authorities often blame such disasters on a failure to enforce building safety regulations and on poor maintenance.
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