At least eight people have have died and dozens of children are trapped after the collapse of a four-storey school building in Nigeria.
“Thirty-seven people were rescued alive and eight were recovered dead,” Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said in a statement.
Emergency workers had pulled people alive from the rubble, some of them badly injured, said Official Shina Tiamiyu, head of the Lagos state emergency management agency.
Police said they believed scores of people were trapped under the rubble of the building that collapsed in mid-morning in an area near Itafaji market on Lagos Island.
“We are getting additional cranes to be able to go deeper than where we are now to rescue more lives,” Lagos state governor Akinwunmi Ambode said.
Mr Ambode promised a full investigation and promised punishment for anyone found to be responsible for the tragedy.