2 buried alive as quarry site caves in at Ibadan
Two persons have been reportedly killed in a tragic incident that happened on Monday at a Quarry site located at Ologuneru, along Eleyele/Eruwas road, in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital, when the site suddenly caved in.
Oyo State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corp, (FRSC) Corps commander, Chukwurah Uche while speaking with journalists confirmed the incident, adding that another person who was said to be working at the site also suffered injuries.
The Federal Road Safety Corp (FRSC) boss said, ‘our officials were alerted by the residents of the area around 3pm that a quarry had caved-in and two people lost their lives. We quickly moved in to the scene of the incident, two persons were dead and their corpses evacuated to a mortuary, while other person who sustained injury was taken to the hospital.”
An eye witness said, ‘three men were at the site packing sand into a truck when the heap of sand which is about two- storey building high, suddenly caved in and covered the three men below.
“Three men were covered by the heap of sand while loading the truck with sand, when the sand collapsed on them and the truck, one of them was immediately rescued with bruises on his head, and was later taken to the hospital, but the remaining two were covered completely and there was no equipment rescue them”
“We resolved in using shovels for their rescue before they later brought loader, but by the time they will be pulled out of the sand, one of them was dead completely while the other one was still breathing but died thereafter.”
