One body has been recovered from the rubble of the collapsed seven-story building at 1st Avenue, Banana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos State.

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency’s search and recovery efforts unearthed the remains of the adult male, whose details were unknown yet, according to the Lagos State Information and Strategy Commissioner, Gbenga Omotosho, on Friday.

“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 two and three have been levelled to ground zero, with the search operation completed. Quadrant for is ongoing,” he added in a statement.

According to him, 25 persons were rescued from the construction site on Wednesday, noting “they are all doing fine.”

“When a roll call was done 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,” he said.

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