MORE VICTIMS RESCUED FROM LAGOS IKOYI COLLAPSED BUILDING,WHILE DEATH TOLL RISES TO 42

7/11/21

DANIELS G.O

AHMED BOLA TINUBU,GOVERNOR BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU,COMMISSIONER FOR HEALTH PROFESSOR AKIN ABAYOMI,AND PERM SEC LSMOH SEGUN OGBOYE AT THE RESCUE SITE YESTERDAY.

THE NUMBER OF RECOVERED BODIES FROM THE RUBBLE FOLLOWING MONDAY’ S BUILDING COLLAPSE INCIDENT ON GERRARD ROAD IKOYI LAGOS HAS RISEN TO FORTY TWO.

LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR, BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU WHILE GIVING AN UPDATE ON THE SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATION AT THE SCENE ON SATURDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2021, EXPLAINED THAT ADDITIONAL SIX PERSONS WHO WERE EVACUATED ALIVE FROM THE COLLAPSED STRUCTURE ARE CURRENTLY RECEIVING TREATMENT AT THE POLICE HOSPITAL IN FALOMO, LAGOS BRINGING THE NUMBER TO FIFTEEN.

GOVERNOR SANWO-OLU WAS AT THE SITE IN COMPANY OF THE NATIONAL LEADER OF THE RULING ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (APC) BOLA AHMED TINUBU AND THE NASARAWA STATE GOVERNOR ABDULLAHI SULE AND A HOST OF OTHERS.

GOVERNOR SANWO-OLU DISCLOSED THAT FORTY TWO BODIES HAD BEEN RECOVERED FROM THE SITE AS AT 6PM SATURDAY, GIVING A CLEARER MANIFEST OF THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WERE POSSIBLY AT THE CONSTRUCTION SITE BEFORE THE BUILDING CRUMBLED ON MONDAY

AMONG THE LATEST SURVIVORS ARE A 38 YEAR OLD WOMAN,GLORY SAMSON.OTHERS ARE NDAJOR AHMED,YUNUSA ABUBAKAR,AJIBOYE HABIB, JEREMIAH SAMSON WHO IS SAID TO BE IN COMA AND ONE MAN IDENTIFIED AS EMEM.

THE GOVERNOR SAID IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODIES BY RELATIVES HAD COMMENCED,ADDING THAT THE DNA EXAMINATION WAS BEING UNDERTAKEN ON SOME OF THE BODIES DIFFICULT TO BE IDENTIFIED BY THEIR FAMILIES.