TWO BURIED ALIVE AS QUARRY SITE CAVES IN IN IBADAN

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.”

Penpushing further reports that, 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.”