Seven Worshippers Killed in Northern Nigeria Mosque Collapse

BAUCHI (Reuters) – Seven folks died after a mosque stuffed with worshippers caved in on Friday in Nigeria’s northern metropolis of Zaria, in Kaduna state, with a number of others injured.

Zaria Emirates council spokesman Abdullahi Kwarbai stated the incident occurred as a whole lot of trustworthy noticed afternoon prayers on the metropolis’s central mosque.

“4 our bodies had been discovered initially, after which three others had been discovered after the rescue staff searched the collapsed mosque,” he stated.

Constructing collapses are frequent in Africa’s most populous nation, the place laws are poorly enforced and development supplies typically substandard.

(Reporting by Ardo Hazzad in Bauchi; Writing by Elisha Bala-Gbogbo; Enhancing by Chris Reese)

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