Ikoyi building collapse: Death toll hits 42, survivors now 15 - Sanwo-Olu

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has given an update on the number of casualties and survivors of the recent collapsed 21-storey building at Ikoyi.

Sanwo-Olu  disclosed that 42 bodies had 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.”

Sanwo-Olu stated this when he visited the site on Saturday, in company of  All Progressives Congress, APC, National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Nasarawa State Governor, Engr. Abdullahi Sule, among others.

The governor said that 49 families so far have filed the missing persons’ register as of Saturday morning.

He said the register had helped the state government to reconcile the details of victims rescued alive and also medically account for bodies recovered.

He said that a sum of money has been set aside “for succour and to give for 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, the search and rescue operation continues.