Rescue workers retrieve one body and three survivors from rubble of luxury apartments under construction

Up to 100 people are missing after a luxury residential high-rise under construction in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, collapsed on Monday, trapping construction workers under a pile of concrete rubble, witnesses said.

At least one body was retrieved and at least three survivors were pulled out on Monday night as rescue workers raced against the clock to dig up victims at the site in the affluent neighbourhood of Ikoyi, where many blocks of flats are under construction.

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