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A man, on Saturday, plunged into the lagoon from the Third
Mainland bridge in Lagos state.
The man, whose identity is yet to be confirmed, was said to
have told the driver of the vehicle he was in to stop after which he
immediately jumped into the water.
Confirming the incident, Nosa Okunbor, public
affairs officer of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), said
officials of the agency are currently making efforts to rescue the victim.
“He should be in his mid-twenties. He ordered a car-hailing
service from Gbagada to the Island. He deceived the UBER driver that he had a
running stomach after which he jumped into the lagoon,” Okunbor said.
“As I speak with you, the marine unit of the Lagos central
zone has been searching for the victim since 11:30am, but we have not found the
body.”
The incident of suicide on the bridge linking Lagos mainland
to the Island has become a recurrent happening in the state.
In January, officers of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) on
patrol on the bridge prevented a man from jumping into the lagoon in a suicide
attempt.
The man was taken to the Adekunle Police Station for
investigation.
In 2018, a driver attached to the Federal Radio Corporation
of Nigeria (FRCN) committed suicide after jumping into the Lagoon from the
bridge.
He was said to have pretended that he wanted to urinate
after he alighted from a commercial bus and plunged into the water.
A year before that, a medical doctor identified as Alwell
Orji, also dived into the water and his corpse was recovered days later.
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