Lagos State Government have set up a medical base and information desk at the site of the building collapse, urging those whose family members were still missing to offer information on identity.
There is also a website (www.lagosmind.org/help) and helpline number (09090006463) for the distress family.
As at 3rd Wednesday November 2021, afternoon, the Governor put the figure of confirmed fatality to 21, while nine persons were evacuated alive from the collapse rubble.
Those rescued from the rubbles are Oduntan Timilehin, 26; Sunday Monday, 21; Adeniran Mayowa, 37; Sholagbade Nurudeen, 33; Waliu Lateef, 32, and Ahmed Kanleku, a 19-year-old Beninoise.
The bodies recovered from the site, are currently undergoing systematic process of identification.
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Before the end of today or tomorrow, the process would have been completed and family members can come forward to identify them,”
The multi-sectoral search and rescue operation is still ongoing as at press time.
The effort is being led by teams of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), with the support of construction giants, Julius Berger, Craneburg, HiTech and China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC).