Two persons are feared dead while four others escaped unhurt when a lexus jeep with four occupants and a toyota jeep with three persons inside were swept into a canal as they tried to navigate under the heavy rains at oyatoki street along orile agege axis of lagos state saturday.
The occupants according to some eye witnesses refused to heed to the warnings by the residents in the area who are familiar with the terrain to go back as they continued with their journey.
The residents who watched from a safe distance as the two jeeps were swept into the canal later mobilised themselves and successfully rescued four persons .
Before then,one of the occupants in the toyota jeep had alighted from the vehicle when the driver tried to move into the flooded street.
The condition of the two persons still trapped inside the vehicles swept into the canal is uncertain as rescue operation is still ongoing to rescue them.
(Editor: Nkoli Omhoudu)
