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BREAKING: Body Of Owner Of Collapsed Ikoyi Building Recovered

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3 years ago

Nov 4, 2021.

The body of the owner of collapsed Ikoyi building has been recovered.

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the body believed to be the owner of the collapsed 21-storey building in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State, Femi Osibona, has been recovered on Thursday.

This online newspaper gathered that Osibona’s body was recovered on Thursday after intense efforts from emergency workers at the collapsed site.

It would be recalled that the 21-storey building on Gerrard Road collapsed on Monday afternoon.

It was, however, learnt that a combined team of emergency responders recovered the body of the owner of the collapsed structure, which has been taken to a morgue.

According to Vanguard, there were conflicting reports on when the body was actually recovered.

While a report said the body was recovered early Thursday, another stated Thursday evening.

This online news platform understands that there was no official confirmation on the report as of press time.

The 16 floors building was owned and constructed by the late Osibona’s company Fourscore Heights Limited.

After over 72 hours of rescue and search operations since the incident occured, a vehicle belonging to one of the trapped victims was removed from the scene on Thursday evening by rescue team.

The details of the vehicle that was removed from the scene is YAB655AZ, Toyota Highlander.

The owner was said to be the owner of an aluminium fabrication company. He came there with some of his workers and among them includes one Kenneth Otu.

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