The number of people killed in the collapse
of a guest house under construction at the
Lagos headquarters of one of Prophet TB
Joshua's Synagogue for All Nations rose to
41 on Sunday, rescuers said, as they worked
to clear the wreckage.
The five-storey building in the Ikotun
neighbourhood of Lagos collapsed on
Friday, and Farinloye said some 130 people
had been pulled out alive with varying
degrees of injury.
Local media showed a mound of flattened
concrete and twisted steel wires at the
compound belonging to the Synagogue
Church of All Nations, which is headed by
"Prophet" T.B. Joshua, who has followers
across Africa and around the world.
"We have 41 dead now," Ibrahim Farinloye,
spokesman in Lagos for Nigeria's National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA),
said.
On Friday after the collapse, members of
the church had at first prevented
emergency officials from participating in
the rescue, making it difficult to establish a
toll for the dead and injured. But state
rescuers were allowed in on Saturday.
"We're still working at the site," said
Farinloye, adding he expected the clear-up
would extend into Monday.
There was no immediate explanation for
the collapse.
Emergency services officials said the lower
two floors of the building located in the
large church compound had already been
operating as a guest house, and it appeared
construction work was underway to add
three more floors

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