Photos: 25 Students, 2 Teachers Inhale Toxic Chemical In Ogba Grammar School!

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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Posted: at 1-11-2013 08:25 AM (10 years ago) | Newbie

God save Nigeria

Posted: at 1-11-2013 09:45 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Hmmm

Posted: at 1-11-2013 10:06 AM (10 years ago) | Hero

Sounds like something labelled and made in China and sold as "science equipment" to unsuspecting Nigeria importers!

Posted: at 1-11-2013 10:10 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Eyaaa,too sad.quick recovery

Posted: at 1-11-2013 10:38 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming

Hmmmm

Posted: at 1-11-2013 12:40 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 

Posted: at 1-11-2013 12:53 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero

I suspect a leak of nitrogen gas

Posted: at 1-11-2013 01:49 PM (10 years ago) | Newbie

Quick recovery

Posted: at 1-11-2013 02:29 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Hmmn#

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Posted: at 1-11-2013 06:43 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac