AGAGU'S CRASH UPDATE: THE SURVIVING TECHNICIAN DIES

Associated Airlines' aircraft technician who was among the five

survivors of the October 3 crash that left 15 people dead in Lagos has

passed on. He died at the Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos, where he

had been receiving treatment.

The development brought to 16 the number of dead victims of the

ill-fated plane which crashed while conveying the remains of former

governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu, from Lagos to Akure.

Sources at the hospital said the technician, Mr. Samson Fatoye, died

at about 7pm on Wednesday. Fatoye, who suffered severe burns from the

crash, had been treated in many hospitals before he was finally taken

to the Gbagada hospital.

The sources said Fatoye died few hours after immigration officials

from Abuja arrived in the hospital with electronic data capturing

machine to prepare passport for the survivors to travel overseas for

further treatment.