Plateau State Government has confirmed 22 Dead and 132 persons injured in Jos collapsed school building.
The Commissioner for Information, Musa Ashoms, said six of the injured were in critical condition.
Ashoms said that those injured were receiving treatment in various tertiary health facilities in the state, while the bodies of the deceased had been deposited in the mortuaries.
9News Nigeria reports that a two storey building of Saints Academy, a Secondary and Primary school located in Busa-Buji commuinity of Jos North Local Government Area, had collapsed, trapping students, teachers and others.
The incident occurred on Friday at about 11:20am, leaving many students who were writing their third term examination trapped under the rubble.
Meanwhile, Plateau State Governor, Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang has described the incident as a tragic and monumental loss to the state.
Mutfwang stated this in a statement issued by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, on Friday in Jos.
The Governor, sympathized with the families of the affected victims, further described the incident as heartbreaking and unfortunate.
“This is tragic, unfortunate, heart-wrenching and a gloomy situation. We appreciate the timely intervention of the search-and-rescue team, as well as members of the public, who rushed to the school premises to assist in evacuating some of the surviving students and staff”, he said.
-9News Nigeria.
