One of the sewer workers with the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) has been trapped in an underground drainage at the Onipanu area of the state.
On Monday, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, Lagos Emergency
Management Agency (LASEMA) permanent secretary, said the adult male sewer
worker was caught between the tunnel while dislodging and evacuating waste from
the underground drainage.
He said the agency received a distress call to which LASEMA
officers at the Onipanu base quickly responded to, adding that officers of the
Lagos Fire and Rescue Service, Lagos State Traffic Management Authority
(LASTMA), and LAMATA, were also deployed to the scene.
Oke-Osanyintolu said the agency provided sophisticated
equipment to save the worker’s life, adding that the inflow of water was also
diverted to reduce the underground water volume.
“Following an SOS
message on the distress situation of a Drainage Worker, LASEMA activated the
State’s Emergency Response Plans from its Onipanu Base,” he said.
“Upon the arrival of the emergency responders at the
incident scene, investigations revealed that an adult male de-silting drainages
along that axis in an attempt to clear a blocked portion accessed the
underground tunnel and got trapped.
“Further investigation at the incident scene revealed that
the man was a Drain Ducks worker employed by LAMATA, while trying to dislodge
and evacuate debris from the underground drainage, unfortunately, got trapped
in between the tunnel.
“In conducting the
Search and Rescue Operation, the LASEMA Response Team and all Emergency
Responders are working together assiduously to rescue the trapped victim from
inside the underground drainage which commenced at 1625hrs.”
Providing update on the incident on Tuesday, Nosa Okunbor,
LASEMA head of public affairs unit, said all efforts to rescue the drain duck
worker has proved abortive.
“The rescue operation was suspended at 09:36hrs yesterday to
resume today since all efforts to rescue him proved abortive. Rescue operations
still ongoing,” he said.
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