Rescue efforts ongoing (photograph credit score: Vanguard)
A girl, whose identification is unknown, reportedly plunged into a lagoon in third Mainland Bridge space of Lagos Island on Sunday.
Famzn News understands that as at 10:00pm, efforts had been nonetheless on to get well the lady’s physique, with out success.
But there are conflicting studies with regard to how the incident occurred, as a model stated that the lady was a passenger in an UBER automobile, driving inward Lagos Island, when she informed the motive force to cease.
As said by the report, she alighted from the automobile, crossed the street and plunged into the lagoon.
The different report has it that the one that jumped into the lagoon was a man.
He was reportedly mentioned to have parked his Ford Explorer automobile on prime of the third Mainland bridge and plunged into the lagoon.
Video of the automobile with plate quantity APP 190 CE has since gone viral.
Meanwhile, spokesman for the police in Lagos, Chile Oti, mentioned the efforts had been on to get well the physique.
”When the knowledge reached the Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, he directed rescue group comprising policemen from the Marine Police, the Rapid Response Squad, RRS and people from the three divisions across the space: Adeniji Adele, Oworoshoki and Adekunle divisions,” he informed Vanguard.
”The Police rescue group are nonetheless at work as I communicate, in collaboration with companies just like the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA the Lagos State State Ambulance Service and the Federal Road Safety Corp personnel . So far, they haven't succeeded in recovering the physique. Any growth on will probably be communicated to the general public.”