One body has been recovered from the debris of the Banana Island, Lagos, collapsed building.
According to the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, in a statement on Friday, the body was recovered following the efforts of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, workers who had joined others in the search and recovery operation since the building collapsed.
The recovery of the body came two days after the building collapsed.
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Omotoso’s statement reads: “One body has been recovered from the rubble of the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi.
“Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) workers’ search and recovery efforts unearthed the remains of the adult male hitherto unaccounted for by site supervisors.
“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 conducted 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.”
