Death toll in Lagos high-rise collapse rises to 36 – emergency services

Rescue workers search for survivors in the rubble of the collapsed 21-storey apartment building under construction in Lagos, Nigeria on Nov. 3, 2021. (AP)

• ‘So far, 36 people – 33 males and three females – have been confirmed dead, while there were nine survivors’

LAGOS: The death toll in a collapsed high-rise in an upscale area of Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos has risen to 36, the emergency services said Thursday.
“So far, 36 people — 33 males and three females — have been confirmed dead, while there were nine survivors,” Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, general manager of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said.