By Akeem Oduyoye
The Lagos Territorial Coordinator, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye, has disclosed that police are in search of two adults who were thrown from an 18-seater bus into the Lagos lagoon in a road accident that occurred on Wednesday.
Farinloye made this disclosure in a statement issued to newsmen on Wednesday.
According to him, Marine Police were in search of the two adults, a male and female, who fell off the LT 18-seater bus.
Farinloye said the crash involving the bus with registration number FKJ 872 YA occurred by Adeniyi Adele axis inward Lagos Island, on the Third Mainland Bridge.
NEMA coordinator said that the driver of the vehicle, who was on speed, swerved off the road and hit the bridge railings, just as he also added that the impact forcefully pushed the two passengers off the bus into the Lagos lagoon.
“The victims, an adult male and female, are being searched by the Marine Police. The injured have been evacuated to a nearby hospital, ” Farinloye said.
Source: NAN