What was meant to be a minor job at a hotel on Ashanti Close, Apapa area of Lagos State, went awry as two labourers drowned in the facility’s well.
The victims, Yau Umaru and Ismaila Salisu, went to the hotel on February 13, 2020 to put finishing touches to the well which they started digging some days earlier.learnt that while Salisu was working on the well, his legs slipped and he fell into the pool of water. Umaru was said to have gone inside the well to rescue him only to be drowned too.
He added, “I learnt they started digging the well about a week before the incident happened. They were supposed to round off work on it the day the tragedy struck. One of them slipped into the well and drowned. His partner, while trying to help, also drowned.” The source stated, “Maybe this tragedy could have been avoided if the emergency line was picked. Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency or the state Fire Service might have helped in rescuing the men alive since they are trained. Everyone was afraid to go inside the well after the second labourer drowned.
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