LASEMA reported on Monday that seven deaths emerged from the collapsed three-storey building ruins at Ojodu-Berger Lagos.
Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu who serves as the Permanent Secretary for the agency announced this information through an official statement to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
The emergency rescue services now released 13 survivors after the three-storey building collapse at Ojodu-Berger.
At present twenty victims remain unaccounted for in the rubble of the collapsed three-story building at Ojodu-Berger area of Lagos. The rescue operation has retrieved thirteen survivors including four women and nine men.
Dr Oke-Osanyintolu reported that authorities had retrieved seven victims from the site with female adults making up five of those bodies and males totaling two.
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The operation continued with safety protocols actively in place according to him.
The establishment continues its security protocols containing crowd control and outer and inner perimeter restrictions for operational safety measures according to him.
NAN documented that the incident started at 09.45 hrs during Saturday morning.
At 09.45hrs staff at LASEMA prompted emergency response through activation of planned protocols from their Command and Control Center in both Alausa and Onipanu.
The first LASEMA team arrived at the accident site at 09.52hrs and found one building housing a restaurant alongside a bar had collapsed and victims remained trapped beneath the debris at the specific location he reported.
