Bilic’s last game in charge was Saturday’s 4-1 defeat by Liverpool at London Stadium.

A statement from West Ham said the club believed a change was necessary “to move forward positively and in line with their ambition.”

Former Everton and Manchester United boss David Moyes has been strongly linked with succeeding Bilic.

West Ham say Bilic’s coaching assistants Nikola Jurcevic, Edin Terzic, Julian Dicks and Miljenko Rak have also left the club with immediate effect.

Chris Woods, who was goalkeeping coach under Moyes at Everton and United, is the only member of the coaching staff to remain.

“The club’s search for a new manager to take West Ham United forward is under way and an announcement regarding Bilic’s successor is expected to be made over the coming days,” added the statement.

Former Croatia defender Bilic, 49, was appointed in the summer of 2015 and guided West Ham to seventh place in his first season in charge.

But an 11th-placed finish last term, their first at London Stadium, has been followed by a poor start this season.

The Hammers have won just two Premier League matches in 2017-18 – and lost their first three league matches of the campaign.

Speaking after the defeat by Liverpool, Bilic told BBC Sport: “The pressure mounts game by game and at this moment it is big.

“I don’t feel a broken man. On the other hand, the situation for West Ham is not good and the club is above every individual.

“I cannot say anything negative [about the owners]. They have been supportive, very good to me in my two and a half seasons, but the situation is very difficult.”

West Ham’s next match is at Watford on Sunday, 19 November.

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Source: BBC

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At least 40 people died when the two-storey guesthouse for members of the Synagogue Church of All Nations collapsed on Friday.

There is no official comment. Local officials have said additional floors were being added to the structure.

Mr Joshua – also known as the Prophet – regularly preaches to vast crowds.

The popular televangelist says a small plane had circled over the building four times before it collapsed on Friday afternoon and it may have been an attempt to kill him.

“It was yesterday, Friday, as I was praying; they came to call me that there was an airplane hovering over the church. They said it is like it wanted to land,” his statement said.

He said about 30 minutes later, it came over the building several times.

“About five minutes after, the building came down.”

He gave journalists a CCTV video clip of the alleged plane, urging them “to use their discretion to write on what they saw”.

Rescue officials say 130 people were pulled out of the rubble – some are being treated in local hospitals. Many foreigners are believed to have been there at the time.

Mr Joshua’s services, at a mega-church in Lagos’s Ikotun district, are known for attracting thousands of people.

Followers in Nigeria and abroad believe he has the gifts of healing and prophecy.

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Source: BBC

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