16th March, 2020
Death toll in Sunday’s explosion at Abule Ado area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria has reached 20, with three dead bodies evacuated on Monday.
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, had said on Sunday that it had recovered 17 dead bodies from the Abule Ado explosion.
Three more corpses were recovered on Monday by emergency responders combing the buildings affected by the explosion that rocked Abule-Ado in the Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State.
The corpses were recovered from the rubble of some of the collapsed buildings at the Bethlehem Girls College in Abule-Ado.
Officials of the school confirmed the identity of the corpses to be workers of Bethlehem Girls College, the PUNCH reports.
The corpses consist of two females and one male, The PUNCH reports.
The state Chairman, Nigerian Red Cross, Adebola Kolawole, while speaking at the scene of the incident, said, three corpses had been recovered.