Operations to pull people from a collapsed six-story department store in Ghana's capital ended on Monday, with the death toll reaching 14, local media reported.
The West African country's emergency services, along with the armed and police forces, retrieved 81 people from the wreckage after the Melcom department store collapsed on Wednesday.
Out of that figure, 14 were confirmed dead by Ghanaian emergency officials.
?“There are no other mortal remains, so we are clearing the debris and we hope that by the close of the day, we would have cleared the place so that investigations will continue,” Ghana Armed Forces spokesperson, Col. M'Bawine Atintande was quoted as saying on? the website Citifm Online.
Police investigation is ongoing, with a Ghanian municipal works director being detained since last week.
Authorities have accused Carl Henry Clark of involvement, and are holding him accountable for allegations that the department store had been constructed without a permit.
According to the Ghanaian website Joy Online, the owner of the collapsed building in the Achimota suburb of Accra turned himself in at the Bureau of National Investigations on Friday.
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