The body of an adult male has been recovered from the rubble of the seven-storey building which collapsed on First Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos State.
WITHIN NIGERIA recalls that the seven-storey building, which was under construction, collapsed on Wednesday, leaving many workers trapped.
The state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday said that the body of the male victim was found on Friday morning, almost 48 hours after the incident.
Omotoso said, “The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency search and recovery efforts unearthed the remains of the adult male hitherto unaccounted for by site supervisors.
“The excavation of the site, using 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 four is ongoing.
“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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