The Lagos State Chief Coroner, Hon. Justice M. A Dada, has called for the identification of missing persons between October 19 and 27, 2020 from the Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) at Ikeja.
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The call according the Chief Coroner is in pursuant to section 15, Coroner’s system law of Lagos State, 2015.
Dada in a public announcement gave next-of-kin of the missing persons two-weeks to provide means of identification of themselves and their missing loved ones so as to assist the identification exercise.
According to the chief coroner, it is only after a definitive scientific identification that the bodies of the deceased shall be released for burial.
