Tensions are high in Lagos’s capital, Ikeja, Oba Akran, after an helicopter crashed and caught fire in the neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon. According to The Sun, the aircraft is difficult to identify, but eyewitnesses say the fate of the passengers is unknown.
According to the report, the event occurred on the Oba Akran’s popular route, near a petrol station beside a bank. Oba Akran is relatively close to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), which is considered the aircraft’s destination.
Two guys who were not Nigerians but were thought to be pilots were rescued, but the number of passengers on board the chopper was unknown. The aircraft’s operatives had yet to be identified, but men from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) were on the scene. The tragedy occurred around 3:30 p.m, however emergency crews had yet to arrive at the area at the time of writing this story.
There were two white men and two black men on board. Three craters on the spot created by impacts on the ground.” Oba Akran is not that far to Alausa, the seat of power in the state capital, Ikeja. Lagos is considered the commercial capital of Nigeria