Sanwo-Olu says 42 dead, 15 survivor recovered from Ikoyi collapsed building

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has put the number of corpses so far pulled out of the Ikoyi collapsed building at 42.

Also, 15 survivors have equally been recovered from the debris of the 21-storey building which collapsed at Gerrard Road, last Monday, according to the governor.

Sanwo-Olu, giving an update on the search and rescue operation at the scene, on Saturday, said additional six people had been evacuated alive from the collapsed structure and were currently being treated at the Police Hospital in Falomo, Ikoyi.

The governor visited the site in company of former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State.

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.”

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Among the latest survivors are a 38-year-old woman, Glory Samsom. Others are Ndajor Ahmed, Yunusa Abubaka, 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. He said the register had helped the government to reconcile the details of victims rescued alive and also medically account for bodies recovered.

He said identification of bodies by relatives had commenced, adding that DNA examination was being undertaken on some of the bodies difficult to be identified by their families.

Meanwhile, the search and rescue operation continues at the site.