Mar 25 - Nigerian rescue workers are trying to recover scores of people feared trapped in a collapsed four-storey building in Lagos.
At least 11 people are known to have died but officials fear the death toll could be much higher. The residential building in the densely-populated Idi-Araba neighbourhood collapsed late on Tuesday. Its concrete floors concertinaed, trapping scores of people inside and sending twisted metal and rubble tumbling into the surrounding streets.
Helen Long reports.
A woman who lost her relatives cries at the site of a collapsed residential building in the densely-populated Idi-Araba neighbourhood in Lagos, March 25, 2009. The death toll from the collapse ...
