Dozens of workers were in this building under construction when it collapsed on Monday.
Two days after the collapse of a skyscraper in Lagos, Nigeria’s economic capital, which killed at least 22 people, families’ hope of finding survivors is diminishing.
Dozens of workers were in this building under construction when it collapsed Monday in the middle of a large city avenue, in the affluent Ikoyi neighborhood.
“We have found two more bodies this morning, the balance therefore is 22 dead,” he declared this Wednesday to the AFP Ibrahim Farinloye, head of the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema).
In all, nine people were rescued alive from the ruins of this 21-story building.
“We will not abandon rescue efforts until we reach the ground,” Farinloye said, adding that heavy machinery had arrived Tuesday afternoon to help remove debris.
But two days after the collapse, the hope of finding survivors is reduced and according to the families, who wait day and night at the scene of the tragedy, the rescue efforts stopped.
“This is not a rescue operation, but a recovery” of bodies, said, disgusted, a relative of the people who disappeared in the rubble.
Building collapse is a frequent tragedy in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, where millions of people live in decrepit buildings and where the building law is often overlooked. (I)
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