TRAGIC: 5 Drown at Lagos Bar Beach

At least five people have drowned at the Lagos Bar Beach, Lagos, this year, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirms.

In a recent interview, the spokesperson of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, revealed that one of them was an adult, who was reportedly washed away from the ocean on January 11, 2014, Saturday, around 4.45 p.m. The man was in company of other members of the Salallahu Ala Monla Nabiya group, a Muslim group that could have come on spiritual cleansing at the beach.

“Immediately, the beach rescuers made frantic efforts at saving the man but they could not rescue him. This incident has brought the number of those drowned at the Bar Beach to five in 12 days. Four people were drowned on the First of January and efforts to rescue them proved abortive till two days later when their remains were recovered,” Farinloye lamented.

The NEMA spokesman said it had become pertinent for the Lagos State Government to advise people along the coastlines that the effects of climate change are fully here, hence, the need to be safety conscious as people embarked on their various activities in the area. 
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