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A Consultant Pathologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. John Obafunwa, disclosed this on Thursday before the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, presided by Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo
Obafunwa told the court that he received a coroner order on September 22, 2014 to commence a post-mortem examination of the victims for the purpose of identification.
He said, “The bodies were finger- printed, examined externally, opened up and examined internally, and samples were taken from various organs to examine them under the microscope.
“We took samples of bones, muscles and pulled hair where available for DNA analysis and those samples were sent to a laboratory in South Africa in October 2014.
“We also collected DNA samples from the relations of the victims.”
The pathologist said they went through these processes in order to identify the cause of the victims’ death.
He said the processes adopted enable them to also identify 110 victims out of the 116 that died in the incident.
