Vincent Toritseju
Lagos — No fewer than 15 persons were rescued last night from the scene of a boat accident in Lagos after a passenger ferry collided with a shoreline concrete at a construction site around the power line corridor at the Lekki Ikoyi Link Bridge.
While one person was declared missing at the time of filling this report, in a statement by the management of the Lagos State Waterways Authority, LASWA, one passenger sustained injury while one of the 17 persons on board is yet to be accounted for.
In the statement signed by Wuraola Alake, of the Public Relations Unit of LASWA said that Officers from the Search and Rescue Unit of the Lagos State Waterways Authority, the Marine Unit of the Nigerian Police Force and other relevant agencies were still at the incident location carrying out further rescue Operations.
Part of the statement reads: “At about 6.50pm today Wednesday 21, 2024, an Ibeshe bound passenger ferry named Tee Ben having departed from Addax jetty, had a collusion with an unforeseen shoreline concrete at a construction site around the power line corridor at the Lekki Ikoyi Link Bridge.
“About 15 out of the 17 passengers said to be on board this boat have been rescued with one casualty confirmed, while rescue effort is still ongoing as at the time of writing this statement.
“Officers from the Search and Rescue Unit of the Lagos State Waterways Authority, the Marine Unit of the Nigerian Police Force and other relevant agencies were still at the incident location carrying out further rescue Operations.”
