A Red Cross spokesperson, Nuruddeen Hussain Magaji, on Friday night, said no fewer than 21 pupils have died in the school building collapse that occurred in Plateau State. Magaji said there were '21 fatalities and 69 injuries all in admission at various hospitals,' all victims in the building collapse that occurred at the Saints Academy, a secondary school in Jos. The Guardian reports that the collapse occurred while students were writing their third term examination. Earlier AFP had reported no fewer than 16 students were killed in the incident. The trapped students, the news agency added, were heard crying for
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