Nigeria’s commercial city of Lagos, Venezuela’s Caracas, Myanmar’s Yangon, Pakistan’s Karachi and Bangladesh’s Dhaka were the world’s five least safe cities, according to an index by Economist Intelligence Unit.

The report which was released on Thursday ranks cities based on their ability to handle everything from climate disasters to cyber-attacks.

Tokyo emerged the safest city in the world. Singapore took second place after Japan’s capital while another Japanese metropolis, Osaka, came third - the same top three as the two previous Safe Cities Indexes of 2015 and 2017.

This year the index of 60 cities aimed to capture the concept of “urban resilience”, which is the ability of cities to absorb and bounce back from shocks, researchers said.

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