300 students escape unhurt as staircase collapses at Kano girls’ school

About 300 elder students of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Janbulo, successful Gwale Local Government Area of Kano State, narrowly escaped catastrophe connected Thursday aft the staircase starring to their upstairs classrooms collapsed during acquisition hours.
Alfijir quality reports that the incidental occurred astatine astir 1:00 p.m. portion students were attending classes successful 2 upstairs classrooms, leaving them trapped until teachers organized their evacuation.

The schoolhouse principal, Hajiya Jamila Mustafa Mai Nasara, said unit members responded instantly aft proceeding cries for assistance from the affected building.

“We heard shouting from the one-storey gathering wherever astir 300 students were taking lessons successful 2 upstairs classrooms. We rushed to the country and discovered that the staircase had collapsed,” she said.

According to the principal, teachers rapidly sourced a ladder and utilized it to safely evacuate each the students from the building.

“Members of unit instantly brought a ladder, which was utilized to safely evacuate each the trapped students, thankfully, nary lives were mislaid and nary pupil sustained immoderate wounded during the incident,” she added.

Mai Nasara said the schoolhouse promptly notified the Kano State Secondary Schools Management Board by telephone earlier submitting a broad study detailing the incidental and the...