ABUJA, June 4 (Xinhua) -- A total of 137 bodies have so far been recovered from the site of the passenger plane which crashed into a two-storey building in Southwest Nigeria's Lagos State on Sunday, authorities with the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) told Xinhua Monday.
Spokesperson of the agency Yushau Shuaib officially confirmed the figure of corpses recovered from the crash site, saying the remains have been deposited in the mortuary.
According to him, the body of a woman clutching her baby was among the corpses recovered on Monday.
"They were suspected to be residents of the storey-building which the plane crashed into," he added.
The NEMA spokesperson said search and rescue operation was brought to a close at about 7 p.m. on Monday, disclosing that the work will continue in the crash site on Tuesday.
A rescue operator who declined to be named also disclosed that over 10 unidentified children were among the bodies so far recovered from the crash site.
The Dana Air plane, which reportedly took off from Nigeria's capital city Abuja, crashed in a residential area in the Lagos metropolis on Sunday, barely 24 hours after a Nigerian Allied Cargo airplane (also from Lagos) crash-landed in Ghana, killing at least 10 people.
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