The body of a student on industrial training was, on Sunday evening, recovered from the collapsed three-storey building at Yaba area of Lagos State as the death toll hit five.
The Zonal Coordinator, South-West of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, confirmed the development to newsmen in Lagos.
According to NAN, the relatives of the IT student, simply identified as Damola, told the emergency rescue team that their son reported to duty the day the building collapsed and had yet to be found.
The clue came about the time rescue and recovery operation was to be concluded, having rescued two persons and recovered four bodies from the rubbles of the collapsed building.
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Farinloye said that the mother of Damola fainted when one of his relatives identified the body to be his.
It would be recalled that a three-storey building under construction in the Yaba area of Lagos State had collapsed on Saturday.
The building on Akanbi Crescent in Yaba, it was gathered, collapsed into another building beside it.
It, however, took the combined team of officials of NEMA, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Nigeria Police Force (NPF), and the Fire Service about 24 hours to get to the bottom of the rubbles.
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