The Director of Lagos State Fire Service, Mr. Rasak Fadipe, said, yesterday, they recovered two bodies from a petrol tanker and a deep well on Monday.

Fadipe said that an unidentified man, who attempted to steal petrol inside a stationary tanker, was suffocated by the fumes and died.

According to him, “the tanker was parked opposite Morogbo Police Station, along the Badagry Expressway. The corpse was retrieved at about 5p.m. on Monday and handed over to Morogbo policemen.”

In another development, the service also recovered the body of another unidentified man, who fell into a 150-foot deep well on Monday night.

Fadipe, who said that the incident happened at Iju Ishaga area of the state, stressed that it took them many hours before they retrieved the body.

His words: “We got information that a male adult fell into a 150-foot deep well at Iju Road. Our men mobilised and went there immediately.”