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Posted By richards on October 29, 2014

The coroner probing the September 12, 2014 Synagogue building collapse, Magistrate O.A. Komolafe, said on Wednesday that he has received the list of the people lodging in the building prior to the accident.

The coroner had demanded for the list from the Synagogue Church of All Nations, following a request by the Lagos State Chief Forensic Pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa.

Obafunwa, leading a team of forensic pathologists conducting autopsy on the bodies of the accident victims, had said the list of the lodgers would be needed to identify the bodies.

No fewer than 116 persons lost their lives while several others sustained varying degrees of injuries in the accident.

At the Wednesday proceeding, Obafunwa gave the assurance that his team will reveal the identities of the dead persons upon the conclusion of their work.

The pathologist, who said his team was able to identify 100 per cent and 98 per cent of the victims of the Associated Airline and Dana Airline accidents respectively, assured that Synagogues case would not be different.

Obafunwa gave this assurance while answering questions under cross-examination by lawyer to the church, Mr. Olalekan Ojo.

He said, We know what we had to do and how we had to do it. The same thing happened in the Dana crash in which we identified 98 per cent of the victims. This same thing happened in the Associated Airline crash in which we identified 100 per cent of the victims.

In his testimonies, the pathologist told the coroner that his final report will, apart from revealing the identities of the victims, also give the cause of their deaths and the possible cause of the building collapse.

The final report will contain the various causes of death, which will answer so many questions as to what collapsed the building.

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Synagogue tragedy: T.B. Joshua submits victims list to coroner

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