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Posted By richards on March 20, 2015

A Consultant Pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa, on Friday said forensic examiners had yet to identify the bodies of six victims of the Synagogue Church of All Nations building collapse.

Obafunwa, who is the Chief Medical Examiner of Lagos State, disclosed this while presenting the final report to the coroners inquest set up to unravel the cause of the incident.

The News Agency of Nigeriareports that the inquest was set up by the Lagos State Government to investigate the September 12, 2014 building collapse, which killed 116 people, mainly South Africans.

The report entitled Report on the Collapsed Building In Synagogue Church Of All Nations,was admitted by the court as Exhibit 034.

Led in evidence by Mr Akingbolahan Adeniran, counsel for the Lagos State Government, the witness said autopsies were performed on the 116 bodies recovered from the collapse site.

He said the post mortem examinations were concluded on September 30, 2014 and the samples for DNA examination were sent to the Unistel Laboratory in South Africa.

Obafunwa said, The first set of DNA and fingerprint results were sent to me on November 3, 2014. Thereafter, an identification committee was set up.

At this time, 74 South Africans (as well as few from Switzerland, Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo, etc) were identified and subsequently released to the South African authorities on November 15, 2014.

Again, the identification committee sat on February 4, 2015, following the receipt of other results from South Africa.

During this time, another 11 South Africans were identified and again released to their authorities on February 5, 2015, thus concluding the release of a total of 85 victims of South African origin.

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