Oyo State Fire Service recovered a 45‑year‑old man from a soakaway pit in Ibadan on Monday evening, the agency said in a statement signed by its chairman, Maroof Akinwande.
The incident occurred in the Oke Ado area on NTC Road, where the man was trapped while carrying out the evacuation of accumulated faeces from the pit.
Fire crews arrived quickly and used knots to pull the victim to safety before handing him over to a team of policemen from Iyaganku Divisional Headquarters.
In the statement, Akinwande said, “Upon arrival, we discovered that a man of about 45 years was trapped in a soakaway pit while carrying out the evacuation of accumulated faecal matter. The fire crew quickly swung into action by tying necessary knots to recover the victim and handed him over to a team of policemen from Iyaganku Divisional Headquarters led by SP Francis Nwamini.”
SP Francis Nwamini, who led the police team, received the recovered man and coordinated the subsequent medical and safety procedures.
Ibadan is the capital of Oyo State, one of Nigeria’s 36 states located in the southwestern part of the country.
<small>Source: Daily Post Nigeria — read the original story there.</small>
