The three-storey building caved in before dawn on Thursday
At least seven people have been killed after a residential building collapsed in a poor neighbourhood in Nigeria's main city, Lagos, officials have said.
A baby was among at least seven other people rescued from the three-story building in the Ebute-Meta neighbourhood.
The building caved in because of structural defects, officials added.
Lagos is one of the most overcrowded cities in Africa, with many badly built structures and poor safety standards.
Nigerian Red Cross official Oladimeji Ige said rescue operations were continuing as they suspected that more people were trapped under the building, AP news agency reports.
He confirmed that an infant was among victims when the building caved in before dawn on Thursday.
Mum-to-be among 7 dead in Lagos building collapse
Mum-to-be among 7 dead in Lagos building collapse
A pregnant woman and a baby were among seven people killed after a residential building collapsed in Nigeria's most crowded city, Lagos, on Thursday
Two other women and three men perished as a result of the collapse, Another seven people were plucked from the rubble Officials said the collapse was caused by structural defects, a common problem in Lagos.
"Seven dead and seven rescued," said Ibrahim Farinloye, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency.
Around 20 people lived in the building. All have been accounted for by the police.
The collapse occurred in the dense Ebute-Meta neighbourhood of the city of some 15 million people.
Such tragedies occur regularly in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, with building codes often not enforced and structures sometimes built haphazardly.
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