Nigeria school collapse kills 21, scores injured

AFP: At least 21 people were killed, mostly students, and scores more injured on Friday when a school in central Nigeria collapsed on pupils taking exams, the Red Cross and witnesses said.
Trapped students cried for help under the rubble as desperate parents looked for help after the Saint Academy school in Jos North district of Plateau State fell in on classrooms, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene. Rescue workers tried to reach the victims with heavy machinery and images from the scene showed crowds gathering round a caved-in concrete building and heaps of debris.
Red Cross spokesman Nuruddeen Hussain Magaji told AFP there were “21 fatalities, and 69 injuries all in admission at various hospitals”.
Earlier, AFP saw 16 dead bodies in two hospital morgues in Jos. All were wearing school uniforms. aWith his mother at his hospital bedside, injured student Wulliya Ibrahim told AFP: “I entered the class not more than five minutes.