BY ABDULGAFAR OLADIMEJI, KANO
The residents of Kano were in grieve recently as three minors were reported to have got drowned in the city while trying to cross the Kwanar Badawa bridge, unknown to them that a part of the bridge had collapsed.
Two of the three minors were said to have died, while one of them survived the tragedy.
A witness, Tukur Suleiman, said that the kids were trying to cross the bridge with their bicycles when the accident occurred.
Suleiman said, “We were seated not far from the bridge after the heavy rain on Tuesday. The boys came to the foot of the bridge on their bicycles, but just as they climbed the bridge, it collapsed.
“They fell into the canal. They were heard crying for help, so we mobilised and tried to rescue them. We later rescued two of them. One had already died. The third boy had yet to be found. We searched for him everywhere in the canal but we could not find him, dead or alive.”
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer, Kano State Fire Service, Saminu Abdullahi, told The Point that the incident had yet to be reported to the Service.
