Lagos - A four story building collapsed in Lagos on Monday, killing at least four construction workers, the Red Cross
said, and leaving around 50 workers trapped inside the rubble, according to witnesses.
The incident happened on a construction site in a street on the prestigious Victoria Island, in a lagoon set back from
the Atlantic, home to some of Africa's most expensive real estate.
"We heard a sound from the third floor of the building and we ran for our dear lives. People are trapped there and there are some brought out injured and some dead,"
worker Mohammed
Kazeem told Reuters TV, saying that
more than 50 of his colleagues wereninside the building when it went down.
Red Cross official Segun Akande said fourbbodies had been pulled from the wreckage so far and seven people had been rescued, three of whom were
critically injured.
Reuters
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