The remains of 74 South African nationals who died in the building collapse at the Synagogue Church of All Nations will be flown back to South Africa today. This was disclosed at a press conference held at Protea Hotel Ikeja, Lagos yesterday evening.
While addressing journalists at the conference, a minister in the South African Presidency, Jeff Radebe said arrangements had been concluded to repatriate the remains of the victims to South Africa, adding that the South African government was ready to support the families of the deceased in theirgridentified victims were South Africans.
“We have been working from about midnight when the South Africans arrived and from the airport we came down to the hospital to look at the bodies that we have identified.
“So far, from Yaba mortuary, we have been able to identify 40 South Africans and the bodies have been appropriately labelled having identified them and moved into the refrigerated trucks.
“My other colleague led the team of South Africans to Isolo mortuary, where they have also loaded 26 identified South Africans,” he said.
As at the time this report was filed, Obafunwa said that if within one or two hours more, the laboratory issued all results, there was possibility some more victims might be added.
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