Wet black Saturday in Lagos amid heavy rainfall, mother, sister, two sons, die in Magodo building collapse
..As flood sweeps 11-year-old boy, rescuer to death, destroys property
By Ezediuto Stanley.
Tragedies occurred in Lagos on Saturday following a heavy downpour across the state as mother, her two children and sister died in a collapsed building incident during this mornings rainfall at Magodo, Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area, LCDA, of the state.
In another sad incident, heavy flood swept away an 11-year-old boy and his rescuer, one Wasiu into a canal in Aboru and Iyana-Ipaja area of Alimosho Local Government Area, LGA, following the overflow of the canal as a result of storm water.
Also, a storey building at Ita-Elewa in Ikorodu area of the state also collapsed following the heavy rainfalls. No life was lost in the incident.
The deceased woman, Mrs. Jumiah Utache, mother of two children, two-year-old Domino Utache, a year-old Daniel Utache and nine-year-old Faith Emmanuel, (wife’s sister) all died on Saturday morning at 48 Arisha Water Front Otun Araromi Street, Magodo Phase 1 when their building collapsed.
Wet black Saturday in Lagos amid heavy rainfall, mother, sister, two sons, die in Magodo building collapse
In another sad incident, heavy flood swept away an 11-year-old boy and his rescuer, one Wasiu into a canal in Aboru and Iyana-Ipaja area of Alimosho Local Government Area, LGA, following the overflow of the canal as a result of storm water.
Also, a storey building at Ita-Elewa in Ikorodu area of the state also collapsed following the heavy rainfalls. No life was lost in the incident.
The deceased woman, Mrs. Jumiah Utache, mother of two children, two-year-old Domino Utache, a year-old Daniel Utache and nine-year-old Faith Emmanuel, (wife’s sister) all died on Saturday morning at 48 Arisha Water Front Otun Araromi Street, Magodo Phase 1 when their building collapsed.
The incident which occurred during the heavy rainfall before midday, saw the husband, Mr. Emmanuel Utache, who sustained different degrees of injuries being rushed to a hospital in an unknown destination before arrival of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA for the rescue operation.
LASEMA later recovered and bagged remains of the dead Utache family and relative, were handed over to their extended family members.
Flood
Also, in another unfirtunate incident, residents of Aboru and Iyana-Ipaja in Alimosho area of Lagos were in mourning mood as heavy flood swept away an 11-year-old boy and his rescuer, one Wasiu into a canal linking Aboru and Iyana-Ipaja on Ige Road, following the overflow of the canal as a result of storm water.
It was gathered that two young boys sent by their parents to buy cooking gas at a gas station unknowingly fell into the drain through which water passed into the canal.
According to an eyewitness, “Three young men attempted rescuing the boys and succeeded in rescuing the older one, but one of the rescuers popularly known as Wasiu Stubborn was swept away while trying to rescue the other victim,”
Also, another eyewitness, Mr Suleiman Adedokun, and a shop owner beside the canal said that the rescuer, named “Wasiu Stubborn “, entered the drain to rescue the boy but the flood swept both of them away into the canal.
“Wasiu tried, succeeded in catching the second boy but his effort to come out of the drain proved futile as it was not easy for him due to the force of the water.
“It is the bad road and narrow culvert that caused these deaths because these two children that fell inside the drain didn’t know it was there as water covered everywhere,” Adedokun said.
A furniture maker, Mr Gift Wejem, who lamented, said that flood had severally swept away furniture, materials, machines and generator whenever the canal overflowed its bank.
However, an officer of the Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps, LSNC, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the agency got the information at about 9:00 am that flood carried away one Mr Wasiu a.k.a, stubborn while trying to rescue two children.
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