At least four people were killed and six injured when a helicopter
plunged into a lagoon in Nigeria's commercial hub Lagos on Wednesday,
emergency services said.The helicopter, operated by the Bristow Group,
came down behind a police station in the Oworonshoki area in the city's
north, according to the National Emergency Management Agency. Two
people were still missing.
"Four dead bodies [have been] recovered
so far," said NEMA spokesperson Ibrahim Farinloye, adding that the
injured had been taken to two hospitals and their condition was not
immediately clear.
Emergency services were scouring the lagoon for two people who remained missing, NEMA said.
A
witness told Channels TV news station the helicopter made a loud noise
before nose-diving into the water near the 12kim Third Mainland Bridge,
the longest of three bridges connecting Lagos Island to the mainland.
Bristow's
fleet of around 500 helicopters services the global energy industry and
it has transportation operations in Nigeria and most other major
offshore oil and gas producing regions of the world.
There have
been several military helicopter accidents across Nigeria in recent
years, but air crashes involving private choppers have been relatively
rare.
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