Body recovered from Banana Island building collapse after two days
Sequel to the collapse of a seven-storey building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island in Ikoyi Lagos on Wednesday, April 12, a body has been recovered from the scene.
This comes after two days of the incident.
The body was recovered by operatives of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) during the search and rescue.
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According to a statement issued on Friday by Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, the rescue men unearthed the remains of the adult male from the rubble who was perhaps unaccounted for by site supervisors.
The statement partly reads, “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 2 and 3 have been levelled to ground zero, with the search operation completed. Quadrant 4 is ongoing.
“Twenty-five people were rescued from the site when the building went down on Wednesday. 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.”