LAGOS—The death toll from last Friday’s collapsed five-storey building owned by the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, in Ikotun area of Lagos State, rose to 44, yesterday. 25 bodies were recovered by rescue workers from the rubble.
On the other hand, six persons, all women, were reportedly rescued alive, thereby raising the number of survivors to 139.
Meantime, the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, while condoling with General Overseer of the church, Prophet Temitope Joshua and members of the church, advised that staff and members of the church, should allow emergency workers could do their work. Fashola gave the advice when he visited the scene, yesterday.
The footage showed that the building, which served as a guest house where people with varying ailments from within and outside the country put up, caved in at exactly 12.44pm. This was shortly after an airplane which was captured while hovering round the church’s premises left.Prophet Joshua popularly called T. B Joshua, yesterday, played a footage of the collapsed building as allegedly captured by the Church’s Close Circuit Television, CCTV, camera to his congregation.
Joshua narrated how he left ‘prayer mountain’ where he ‘lives’ to return to the church, only to be alerted by a telephone call, in which the caller told him that a plane was hovering around the church’s premises.
The structure was initially a two-storey building before it was converted to a five-storey edifice.
Those who were trapped under the debris included foreigners, some kitchen staff and construction workers.
Fashola’s directs church members to vacate site
Fashola, during his visit, yesterday, urged Joshua to prevail on members of the church allow government rescue workers a chance to do their job unhindered as they (members) were not trained to manage emergency situations.

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