Nigeria: Lagos Collapsed Building - Death Toll Rises to Four

2 January 2012

As Lagos residents were making last preparations on New Year's eve to usher in a fresh year, tragedy struck again, after a two-storey building under construction collapsed in Oshodi Local Government Area of Lagos State, killing four persons.

Several other persons also sustained varying degree of injuries. The condition of three of the wounded persons could not be immediately ascertained as they were said to be in the Intensive Care Unit of an undisclosed hospital.

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