The body of an unidentified woman suspected to be one of the passengers of the ill-fated Dana plane was recovered at the site of the crash with her baby still placed on her chest.

The bodies of the woman and her baby were recovered at about 1.20pm on the first floor of the building where the plane crashed. The bodies were put in the same black body bag.

Also brought out of the same floor was a resident of the building, Tosin Anibaba. Our correspondent learnt that she was identified by one of the residents who was with the officials on the first floor of the building.

The body of Dr. Abiodun Jonathan was also among those recovered at the site. Nine bodies were recovered between 1.00pm and 2.10pm and were put in a white hearse for onward transfer to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital’s mortuary.

The hearse, a Hyundai bus with number plate Lagos AJ 865 FFF, belongs to a private funeral company based in Lagos.

An unidentified female National Emergency Management Agency advised few of the relatives of the victims to visit LASUTH for identification of the corpses.

She said, “There is nothing we can do here. All the corpses will be taken to LASUTH. I will advise the relatives of the victims who are here to visit LASUTH and identified their people who died in the crash.”

“Even corpses that had been identified cannot be released because we are working on instruction. Those that had been identified are the ones we are giving name tags. If you observed, you will discovered that not all the corpses had been tagged because there was no way we could identify them.

“Some were even burnt beyond recognition. The few ones we were able to identify were either those identified by their relatives or those who had one form of identity or the other, which have their names as at the time of the crash.”

The NEMA officials appealed to a few of the relatives at the site to cooperate with the agency so as to hasten the recovery process.

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Tears are not enough to mourn for the victims.

We pray for God's mercy on this once great country !!!

We pray that the good Lord grant the families the fortitude to bear the loss!