One Shuaibu, 37, who resides on Kalejaiye Street in the Oke Ona community, Ikorodu area of Lagos State yesterday got drowned while digging a well.

The victim alongside two others were contracted to dig a well for a building which was under construction when the disaster occurred.

While digging the well, the victim became tired in the process and as a result, got trapped inside.
It was learnt that all effort by the residents to rescue Shuaibu from the well proved abortive and as
a result, the Lagos State Fire Service was contacted and the remains of Shuaibu was eventually removed from the well.

According to pyeworld, an eyewitness who claimed anonymity noted thus; “It was in the morning. The three of them were digging the well, which was for the owner of a two storey-building in the community. At a point, he became tired and got trapped in the well. People tried to remove him, but they could not.”

While speaking with newsmen on the incident, the Lagos State Fire Service Public Relations Officer, Amodu Sakiru, says the Ikorodu Fire Station acted upon a distress call it got from residents of the area, adding that the remains of Shuaibu has been handed over to Police Officers from the Ikorodu division. The deceased, according to the Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe inhaled ammonia gas.

Fadipe affirmed, “He must have inhaled ammonia gas, which usually makes the victim get dizzy and
weak. And that was how he got trapped.

“We have held meetings with their association to always inform us whenever they want to dig a well. We do not mind providing them with breathing apparatus. This is because in every well, there is ammonia gas.”