A
total of nineteen persons including two crew members who boarded a boat in
Ikorodu enroute Badore in Lekki on Saturday ran into a tragedy as the boat collided
at a dredging point in Ijede leaving seven passengers stone death, four others
injured while eight were missing.
Similar
incidents had occurred a forth night ago involving two commercial boats which also
suffered a sudden collision. The latest incident occurred in the morning not
quite long after the end of the monthly environmental sanitation exercise in the
state which ends at 10.00am on last Saturdays.
The
General Manager of Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, LASEMA, Mr.
Micheal Akindele, who confirmed the incident stated that on the receipt of
emergency call, his agency embarked on joint rescue operations immediately together
with the Lagos State Waterways Authority, Marine Police, National Inland Water
Ways Authority, Lagos State Fire Service and local divers.
According
to him, the boat belongs to Aki Marine, a private operator, and had 17
passengers and two crew members on board at the time of the mishap adding that
those rescued were immediately rushed to Ijede General Hospital for treatment.
At
the time of filing this report, it was discovered that those rushed to the
hospital were responding to treatments while the copses of the seven passengers
were moved to the mogue accordingly.
“Though, we are still expecting the boat
manifest, rescue operation is ongoing while further investigation would be
carried out by the appropriate agencies to ascertain the actual cause of the
accident,” Akindele stated.
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