Banana Island: LASEMA Retrieves Corpse From Collapsed Building

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Banana Island

One body has been recovered in the wreckage of the seven-story building that collapsed on First Avenue in Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos State.

According to the Lagos State Information and Strategy Commissioner, Gbenga Omotosho, on Friday, the adult male’s remains, whose specifics were not yet known, were discovered during the search and recovery operations of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency.

Omotoso said;

The excavation of the site, using the architectural designs, continues. The site has been divided into quadrants for a painstaking search and rescue operation. Quadrants two and three have been levelled to ground zero, with the search operation completed. Quadrant for is ongoing.

According to him, 25 persons were rescued from the construction site on Wednesday, noting “they are all doing fine.”

When a roll call was done by the site supervisors, everyone was accounted for. Nobody could ascertain whether the victim whose body was found this morning was on the site – as of the time the roll call was taken.

 

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