Breaking News: School collapse kills 5 in Jos

Four children and a teacher were killed when an Islamic primary school collapsed near the central Nigerian city of Jos, Per Second News gathered.

The tragedy happened on Sunday evening at the Abu Naima school in the Bukuru area to the south of the city, said Mohammed Abdulsalam, from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has also confirmed the incident.

"Five people died: four students and one female teacher. Twenty-four people - 21 girls and three boys - were injured and taken to hospital," he told AFP.

Two of the children who died were boys and two girls. Their ages were not immediately available, said Abdulsalam.

The cause of the collapse was yet to be identified but Abdulsalam said investigators were looking at whether the addition of extra floors onto the single-storey building was a factor.

Source: Per Second News