At least four people died, more are still missing and scores were injured when a building collapsed in the Nigerian commercial capital Lagos, police said Thursday.
The two-story building in the Oworonshoki district of the city collapsed late on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
"We have four bodies but it is feared there might still be more missing in the rubble" of the building, a police spokesman said.
Lagos State planning commissioner Kayode Anibaba told reporters that city authorities had earlier served notice on the building's owner that it contravened building regulations.
The building was originally a bungalow and had been illegally built up into a two-story structure, he said, adding that it appeared that sub-standard building materials had been used.
Last week, 11 boys aged three to 11 died and 21 were injured when the wall of a mud-built Koranic school in the ancient northern Nigerian city of Kano collapsed.
The wall was apparently weakened after heavy overnight rain and fell into an open yard being used by the pupils at the Sheik Muktar Islamiyya school in the city's walled Kofar Na'isa district.
Building standards are rarely applied rigorously across Nigeria, leading to frequent collapses -- LAGOS (AFP)
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