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Gov Sanwo Olu, Ahmed Tinubu and Gov Abdullahi Sule (front) arriving the accident scene, Saturday
Miraculous wonders of God played out on Saturday evening as six more people were rescued alive from the ruble of the 21-story collapsed Ikoyi building after being trapped for six days since the building caved in on Monday. This brings the total of rescued people so far to 15.
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, while giving an update on the search and rescue operation at the scene, said the additional six people evacuated alive are currently being treated at the Police Hospital in Falomo, Ikoyi.
The Governor who had gone back to the site, Saturday, in company of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, also disclosed that 42 bodies had so far been recovered from the site as at 6pm on Saturday, giving clearer manifest of the number of people that were possibly at the construction site before the building caved in on Monday.
He said: “There are additional six people that we’ve also been able to identify and who were on site when the building collapsed. They were taken to the Police Hospital in Falomo for treatment and some of them have been discharged. We have taken the full records of survivors in the incident. And this gives a total of 15 people rescued alive. We have a total of 42 bodies that have been recovered.”
Among the latest survivors are a 38-year-old woman, Glory Samson, Ndajor Ahmed, Yunusa Abubakar, Ajiboye Habib, Jeremiah Samson, and one man identified as Emem.
While most of them sustained varying degrees of injury, Samson, 20, is said to be in a coma.
Sanwo-Olu said 49 families had filled the missing persons’ register as at Saturday morning, adding that the register had helped the State Government to reconcile the details of victims rescued alive and also medically account for bodies recovered.
The Governor said identification of bodies by relatives had commenced, noting that DNA examination was being undertaken on some of the bodies difficult to be identified by their families.
“There is a sum of money that has been reserved by the State Government for succour and to give befitting burial for those who died in the incident. Families that so wish to accept it are being supported for the burial arrangement. Also, survivors in hospitals have been given the financial support to help them settle and cope with challenges of feeding in the aftermath of the incident.
Meanwhile, search and rescue operation continues at the site, with the heap of ruble receding sharply./SHARE THIS