Officials of the Lagos State and Rescue Service have been attacked by suspected hoodlums at the Agege area of Lagos State.
According to a statement by the acting head of the agency, Margaret Adeseye, three firemen were injured on Monday.
The statement was titled ‘hoodlums attack Lagos firemen, destroy fire engine’.
Adeseye explained that a fire engine belonging to the Agency damaged by hoodlums, who attacked the officials in the course of duty on Sunday.
She expressed displeasure over the “incessant attacks on firefighters in recent times for yet to be identified reasons”.
She recalled that the attack on the firefighters and the engine occurred after officials of the agency were prevented from attending to a fire incident at Nmani Street, Dopemu Agege, in Orile Agege LCDA, Lagos.
