Lagos: LASEMA rescues residents trapped in elevator at Banana Island apartment

Residents of an flat gathering successful Banana Island, Lagos, experienced a infinitesimal of alleviation aft officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, successfully rescued them from an elevator wherever they had been trapped for implicit an hour.

The incidental gained attraction aft a video circulated wide connected societal media showing the occupants raising alarm portion stuck wrong the lift.

In the footage, the residents appeared visibly distressed and sweating arsenic they pleaded for help.

A societal media idiosyncratic who shared the video claimed the incidental occurred successful an flat analyzable located adjacent to the Banana Island School Apartment.

According to the individual, the trapped residents had contacted the landlord’s girl to question assistance but were told that the building’s absorption would look into the situation.

In the video, the idiosyncratic said, “We are presently trapped wrong the assistance astatine the Banana Island School apartment. We person been stuck present for astir 40 minutes.

“We are suffocating successful present and nary 1 seems to beryllium doing thing astir it. We adjacent contacted the landlady’s girl and she said they would spot what they tin do.”

Providing an update connected the incident, the Permanent Secretary of LASEMA, Dr Oluwafemi Oke-Osanyintolu, confirmed that the residents were yet rescued done ...