Parents Of Minor Victim Of Synagogue Collapsed Building Cannot Be Located -- Doctor

Parents of a minor victim of the Synagogue Church collapsed building
on admission at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH),
Ikeja, could not be located.

Dr Ibrahim Mustapha, a Consultant and Head, Surgical Emergency
Department, LASUTH, said on Monday in Lagos that the minor was fit to
be discharged.

"One of the victims, a child, is due to be discharged today, but we
cannot find her parents.

"We intend to take her photograph to make the announcement and
hopefully, she will be found by her parents,'' Mustapha said.

He said that the other victim, a male, who sustained some bruises on
the head and arm, was also fit to be discharged soon.

"The two victims of the collapsed building are responding well to
treatment and will be discharged soon.

"Both sustained minor injuries including bruises, but we have been
able to treat and dress their wounds," he said.

When contacted, the middle-aged man, who refused to disclose his
identity, said that he was grateful for surviving the collapsed
building.

He said: "I was in the building when it suddenly collapsed.

"I am responding fine to treatment and I hope to be discharged soon.''

NAN reports that a six-storey building belonging to the Synagogue
Church of All Nations, Ikotun, Lagos, had on Sept. 12, collapsed with
no fewer than 50 persons feared dead.

The building, under construction, was initially a two-storey building
before the addition of four new floors.

Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, the South-West Coordinator of the National
Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), had on Sept.14 put the death toll
at the collapsed building at 40.

No fewer than 124 people were rescued alive from rubbles of the
collapsed building believed to be a guest house for foreign
worshippers at the church.

(NAN)