Swamp impedes NAF crash recovery, aircraft still submerged – Police give update

The Commissioner of Police successful Ondo State, Felix Ohagwu, has described the rescue cognition astatine the tract of the Nigerian Air Force ATR-42 craft clang arsenic challenging.

According to Ohagwu, the craft remains profoundly submerged successful the swampy waters of Igbokoda, office of Ilaje Local Council Area, much than 24 hours aft the incident, with the remains of the victims yet to beryllium evacuated arsenic of Tuesday morning.

The commissioner stated that the hard terrain, characterised by creeks, mangroves, and murky waters, has impeded the hunt and betterment mission.

Ohagwu commended the efforts of the Officer Commanding the Forward Operating Base, FOB, the Marine Command, and the Divisional Police Officer of Igbokoda, implicit their continued beingness astatine the country since the clang occurred connected Monday morning.

He noted that the betterment of the wreckage is inactive successful progress, with further method enactment and dense machinery to extract the submerged craft from the h2o being expected.

He confirmed that requests person been made to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and different applicable bodies to deploy larger instrumentality susceptible of pulling the wreckage from ...