A medical doctor known as Orji Sunday got drowned when he jumped from the Third Mainland Bridge into the lagoon on Sunday.

According, to Vanguard, it happened about 4:30pm between the Adekunle and Adeniji end of the bridge, Orji told his driver to pull over that he wants to make a confidential phone call to a client.

Officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management  Agency (LASEMA), and policemen from the Adeniji police station visited the scene. The General Manager of LASEMA, Adesina Tiamiyu said the agency got a distress call of a man who parked his grey coloured Nissan Sport Utility Vehicle with plate number: LND476EE around 4:50pm, who jumped into the Lagoon.

Rapid Respond Squad were also at the scene, searching for the man’s corpse in the lagoon.