Tragedy struck on the third Mainland Bridge when a man said to be a doctor jumped into the lagoon on Sunday.
He was reported to have stopped his driver on the bridge, opened the door of his Nissan SUV and jumped into the Lagoon.
“The driver parked the car, the doctor came down and immediately jumped into the Lagoon.”
Kehinde Adebayo, spokesman of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), said efforts were being made to recover his corpse.
“The agency received a distress call of a man who parked his grey coloured Nissan SUV with registration number LND 476 EE at about 4.50 pm today Sunday, 19th March 2017 around Adekunle, inward 3rd Mainland bridge and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon,” Adebayo said in a statement.
Though the main reason why the medical doctor had to commit suicide as not been established but based on what the driver said before the incident occured, he was quoted to have said his boss ordered him to stop the car after receiving a call on their way back from church.
It is believed that the call he received must have been a shock or probably added to the depression the man must have been keeping for a while.
Efforts are ongoing to contact the family of the deceased so as to establish the eventual reason why he had to take such action.
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