On Friday, the Lagos State government revealed that a body had been found in the wreckage of the building that had collapsed at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi.
According to Newsmen, Gbenga Omotoso, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, announced this in a statement released on Friday.
The body of the male victim was found, according to Omotosho, who added that work on the scene is still being done by LASEMA workers.
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According to the Commissioner, 25 people were saved from the scene when the building collapsed on Wednesday, and they are all in good health.
He said: “The 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.
“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.”
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