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)
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Updated 04 November 2021
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Death toll in Lagos high-rise collapse rises to 36 – emergency services

  • ‘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.


France wants NATO exercise in Greenland, ‘ready to contribute’: presidency

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France wants NATO exercise in Greenland, ‘ready to contribute’: presidency

PARIS: France called Wednesday for NATO to hold an exercise in Greenland and said it was “ready to contribute,” as US President Donald Trump’s push to take the Danish autonomous territory upends the transatlantic alliance.
“France calls for a NATO exercise in Greenland and is ready to contribute to it,” President Emmanuel Macron’s office said.