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Synagogue Building Collapse: Lagos Begins Identification Of Recovered Bodies

The Lagos State Government has asked family members and all Nationals who believe their relations could have been in the collapsed Synagogue Church Of All … Continue reading Synagogue Building Collapse: Lagos Begins Identification Of Recovered Bodies


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building collapseThe Lagos State Government has asked family members and all Nationals who believe their relations could have been in the collapsed Synagogue Church Of All Nations’ building to come forward and submit samples that can aid forensic identification and DNA analysis of recovered bodies.

A statement by the spokesman for the State’s Ministry of Health, Tunbosun Ogunbanwo, said the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, made the call on Friday.

Dr. Idris said that the State government had considered it necessary to start forensic identification and DNA analysis of the recovered bodies in view of the need to identify each of them.

The commissioner appealed to family members especially parents, children and siblings of Nationals who believe their relations could have been in the collapsed building to visit the Department of Forensic Medicine at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, in Ikeja, lagos State, from September 26, 2014 to submit samples that could aid the identification and DNA analysis of recovered bodies.

He, however, emphasised that those eligible to give samples for the forensic identification and DNA analysis in order of preference are parents, children and siblings of the deceased.

The building, a guest house, in the premises of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations collapsed on September 12, leaving over 80 persons dead.

After the collapse, the pastor of the church, Prophet T.B. Joshua, released a video that showed an aircraft flying over the building several times before its collapse.

The Nigerian President visited the scene of the incident and promised that the incident would be investigated.