Ten corpses have been recovered so far from the wreckage of the 21-storey building that collapsed in Ikoyi, Lagos on Monday afternoon.
Nine survivors have also been recovered since the operations started around 4 pm on Monday, according to the rescue teams from both the federal and state government agencies.
Coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the South-West Region, Ibrahim Farinloye, said rescue work was stalled in the early hours of Tuesday following a heavy downpour.
He said rescue work commenced immediately after the rain stopped and that during which two persons were brought out alive.
The General Manager, Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA), Gbolahan Oki, had said on Monday that the owner of the collapsed 21-storey building was given the approval to construct only 15 floors.
The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Obafemi Hamzat, has said when he visited the scene of the incident on Tuesday that the building had been sealed for four months – July to November -, “because our agency came in to do the structural test and saw some anomalies and shut it down and said those things should be corrected.”
