Twenty-five students and two teachers of Ogba
Junior Grammar School in Ogba, Lagos State,
southwest Nigeria, were yesterday evening rushed to
a hospital after they inhaled emission from a toxic
chemical.
It was gathered that the unconscious students and
teachers were immediately rushed to Blue Cross
Hospital, located opposite the shopping mall for
urgent medical attention.
A medical doctor at the hospital declined to comment
on the condition of the students and teachers. Two of
the affected female students whose condition was
critical were transferred in a Lagos State Emergency
Ambulance marked LA 156 A08 to the Lagos State
University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, in Ikeja.
P.M.NEWS learnt that at about 12 noon, the students
and teachers were in the school when they began to
feel dizzy and collapsed after inhaling the emission
from chemical spread to their school premises by air.
Following the incident, some of the teachers raised
an alarm which attracted some members of the
public, who immediately called officials of the Lagos
State Emergency Management Agency on their toll
free lines.
One of the officials of LASEMA told P.M.NEWS that
the gas emission was traced to Bizcircuit Colour
Laboratory, located within the premises of Ogba
Shopping Mall just at the back of the school.
According to the official, the chemical in the lab may
have expired.
Speaking on the incident, Femi Giwa, Head of
Logistics for LASEMA said that it was not an
explosive as some members of the public were saying,
but an emission, which was immediately traced to the
lab, after carrying out an emergency assessment of
the entire place.
Security agents comprising the police, NSCDC
officials, and LASEMA officials cordoned off the
entire area to prevent people from gaining access to
the school and the shopping mall.
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