No fewer than 17 passengers were reported to have been rescued by officials of the\u00a0Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) and other emergency responders after a commercial boat capsized on the state\u2019s waterways.<\/p>\n
It was gathered that the passenger boat capsized enroute\u00a0Ebute Ero in\u00a0\u00a0Lagos Island Local Government experienced mishap mid-way into the journey.<\/span><\/p>\n As learnt, the\u00a0\u00a0commercial passenger ferry named Fazma logistics capsized on Monday about\u00a0\u00a07 am, barely 15 minutes after leaving the\u00a0Ikorodu ferry terminal for the final destimation.<\/span><\/p>\n The ill-fated passenger boat,\u00a0unfortunately, capsized around Third mainland bridge and a few meters away from the Bariga ferry terminal in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n Eyewitnesses narrated that the proximity of the Bariga ferry terminal further aided the response time as many emergency officials at the terminal swung into action, saving all the passengers.<\/span><\/p>\n The accident was confirmed by LASWA management through a statement released by the agency and made available to newsmen.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the statement, \u201cAt about 7 am on Monday 20th of February 2023, a commercial passenger ferry named Fazma logistics, loaded with 17 passengers, left Ikorodu ferry terminal at exactly 6:45 am en route Ebute Ero but\u00a0unfortunately capsized around Third mainland bridge close to Bariga ferry terminal.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAll the passengers were rescued alive by first responders including officers of the Lagos State Waterways Authority LASWA.\u00a0Boat recovery operations commenced immediately while the boat captain is been interrogated and investigations are ongoing\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No fewer than 17 passengers were reported to have been rescued by officials of the\u00a0Lagos State Waterways Authority (LASWA) and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}