Nigerian rescuers have ended search operations at the site of a plane crash that killed at least 159 people in the country's largest city to concentrate on clearing debris, an official said Wednesday.
While formal searches have ended, workers will remain on the lookout for human remains while clearing debris from the site on the northern outskirts of Lagos. A total of 153 bodies have so far been recovered.
"We're not doing full searching operations," said Yushau Shuaib, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency. "What we are doing now is we are trying to clear the place and fumigate the area."
All 153 people on board the Dana Air MD83 died when it crashed into a neighbourhood near the airport in Lagos on Sunday afternoon, while at least six people on the ground were killed.
The 22-year-old plane plowed into a two-storey apartment block, a church, a house and a textbook warehouse.
The ruins of the apartment block were torn...
