Nigeria school collapse kills 21, scores injured

Trapped pupils cried for help under the rubble as desperate parents looked for their children after the Saint Academy school in Jos North district of Plateau State fell in on classrooms, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.

Rescue workers tried to reach the victims with heavy machinery and images from the scene showed crowds gathering around a caved-in concrete building and heaps of debris.

Red Cross spokesman Nuruddeen Hussain Magaji told AFP there were "21 fatalities, and 69 injuries all in admission at various hospitals".