4-year-old boy reportedly drowns in Kano well

Uba Group

A four-year-old boy reportedly drowned in a well at Dawanau Ilesha Nawawu in Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area of Kano State on Monday.

Spokesman of the Kano State Fire Service, Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, confirmed the accident on Tuesday, in Kano.

“We received a distress call at about 4:55pm from one Aminu Sani-Sha’aibu and sent our rescue team to the scene at about 5:20pm,’’ he said.

He said that the boy was later brought out of the well dead and that the incident was being investigated.

Abdullahi added that the corpse had been handed over to the ward head of Ilesha Nawawu, Malam Musa Habibu.

He gave emergency numbers of the Fire Service as 08107888878, 07051246833, 07026026400, and 08098822631 to enable members of the public to call in case of emergencies.

(NAN).