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Nigeria: Collapsed Building Claims Lives in Lagos

allAfrica.com: "A two-storey building collapsed yesterday at Oke-Popo Street, Lagos Island, at about 5:34 p.m. Six people had been brought out dead as at the time of filing this report.
Eye-witness account said the six were three women and three children between the ages of two and five years. One of the occupants of the building who put to bed few days ago, and was supposed to christene, the child yesterday, survived with her baby, while some of her well-wishers were trapped in the building"

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