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35-year-old unidentified man suspected to be a burglar on Thursday, drowned in
a well on Modupe Ajayi Close in the Alagbado area of Lagos State, The Punch
reports.
Reports say he attempted to scale the fence into the compound at about 1am when he landed in the well.
Reports say he attempted to scale the fence into the compound at about 1am when he landed in the well.
Residents
were said to have been woken up by his groans, after which they alerted the
police and officials of the Lagos State Fire Service.
The
Director of the Fire Service, Rasak Fadipe, said efforts were ongoing to
ascertain the identity of the victim but an official of the fire service who
didn’t want his name mentioned, said “Somebody ran into our Agege station
around 1am and said a man had fallen into their well.
Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer,
PPRO, SP Dolapo Badmos, said “At about 1.30am, one Tosin Babatunde of Modupe
Ajayi Close, Alagbado, came to the station and reported that a man of unknown
identity, suspected to be a thief, scaled the fence into their compound and
landed in a well.”