Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - Coordinator of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye has said that hope of rescuing the two passengers who fell off a bus into the Lagos lagoon following an accident on Wednesday, April 10, has become dim.
Addressing journalists, Farinloye disclosed
that personnel of the Marine Police have been searching
for the two adults, a male and female, who fell off the LT 18-seater bus into
the Lagos lagoon.
The NEMA coordinator who revealed that the
accident occurred along Adeniyi Adele axis inward Lagos Island on the Third
Mainland Bridge, added that the driver of the vehicle, who was on speed,
swerved off the road and hit the bridge railings, with the impact pushing the
two passengers off the bus into the lagoon.
He also disclosed that the Lagos State
Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has mobilised more local divers to join
the team for the recovery operations.
Farinloye said;
“However, by now, we are not looking at
search and rescue again, but recovery. This is because the male passenger was
said to have floated about three times before he was finally drowned, while the
woman did not even surface at all. Therefore, the possibility of anyone of them
surviving is slim.”
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