LASEMA Finds Body Under Rubble Of Banana Island Building Collapse

• A seven-storey building collapsed on Wednesday in Lagos.

• The initial roll call suggested that only 25 people were at the construction site.

• However, emergency workers have made an unfortunate discovery.

Eko Hot Blog reports that Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) officials have found and recovered one body from the rubble of the collapsed building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos.

Recall that rescue workers had successfully rescued 25 workers from the site on Wednesday.

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The site supervisors had said that all workers were accounted for.

However, in a statement Friday evening, the Lagos Commissioner for Information & Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, disclosed that the search and recovery efforts of LASEMA workers on Friday morning unearthed the remains of a male worker that was unaccounted for by the supervisors.

Omotoso said nobody could ascertain whether the victim was on the site as of the time the roll call was taken.

The information commissioner added that LASEMA officials are still searching Quadrants 1 and 4 of the collapsed building.

“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 statement reads.

“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.

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“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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