Trade fair building demolition: 70-year-old man rushed to hospital after inhaling teargas

By Efe Onodjae

A 70-year-old antheral simply identified arsenic Baba eko was connected Thursday rushed to infirmary aft inhaling teargas fired by information operatives during the demolition of structures astatine the fashionable Trade Fair Complex, Lagos.

The incidental occurred arsenic combined information teams moved successful to disperse protesting traders who resisted the ongoing demolition of much than 19 buildings astatine the New Mandela Plaza wrong the complex.

According to findings, the aged antheral was employed arsenic a cleaner astatine the Magnus building. He was said to person been wrong the premises erstwhile information operatives fired teargas to disperse radical successful the building.

Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the aged man, who slumped aft struggling to breathe, was caught successful the mediate of the chaos erstwhile operatives fired aggregate canisters of teargas to forestall traders from accessing the demolition site.
“People were shouting and moving everywhere, past we saw the aged antheral gasping for aerial earlier helium collapsed. Some traders rushed him retired and called for help,” a witnesser said.

Security operatives, comprising men of the Lagos State Task Force, Rapid Response Squad, and different tactical teams, had mounted dense beingness astir the plaza, cordoning disconnected the country and preventing traders from salvaging their goods.
The exercise, which galore traders described arsenic “sudden and heartless,” near shops and warehouses destroyed, with respective victims lamenting immense losses.

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