ABUJA, Aug. 17– Five bodies were recovered and 11 others rescued after a building under construction and a school collapsed at separate locations in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano over the weekend, local authorities said.
Six workers were trapped in the debris of a building measuring 50 feet by 50 feet under construction in Gaida, a town in Kumbotso Local Government Area, but only two were rescued following the collapse on Saturday, the Kano State Fire Service said in a statement late Sunday.
In the state’s Fagge Local Government Area, a local school collapsed during a class on Saturday afternoon, trapping about nine pupils and a teacher.
The body of one pupil was recovered while nine others were rescued, the Kano State Fire Service said. The agency said rescue operations had ended at both locations and an investigation had been launched into the incidents.
Building collapses occur frequently in Nigeria, with experts often attributing such incidents to aging structures, violations of building regulations and the use of substandard construction materials. (Namibia Daily News / Xinhua)
