The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA),says death toll at the scene of a high-rise building that caved in Ikoyi axis of Lagos State has risen to 36.
The agency says the revelation came after fourteen additional dead bodies were recovered by the emergency rescue team under rubbles of the crashed structure.
Besides,the agency said no additional person has been rescued under the rubbles, leaving the number of victims that survived the disaster and rushed to a state-owned medical facility, Lagos Island General Hospital in Marina, for adequate medical care to 9 while two have been discharged.
NEMA Acting Coordinator, Lagos Territorial Office, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed that thirty-three of the fatalities were men while the three others were women.
He added“So far, 36 people – 33 males and three female — have been confirmed dead, while there were nine survivors”
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