One body has been recovered from the rubble of the collapsed seven-storey building at First Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi, according to the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA).
According to a statement on Friday by the state Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Gbenga Omotoso, the search and recovery efforts of LASEMA workers’ unearthed the remains of the adult male hitherto unaccounted for by site supervisors.
Omotoso further said: “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”.
The building reportedly caved in on Wednesday caved in when some of the construction workers on site had closed for the day.
The state government launched a probe into the incident, following a directive by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
