By Admin
It was a sad day for the family of a teenage Kano boy identified as Ashfa Ibrahim (14 years) after he drowned in an open stream in Danzaki village in Gezewa local government area of Kano state.
The spokesperson of the Fire Fighting Department Alhaji Saminu Abdullahi, revealed in a statement to newsmen on Tuesday saying the incident occurred on Monday.
“We received a distress call from one Ibrahim Abdullahi and we dispatched our rescue team to the scene but the victim was rescued from the stream unconscious,” he said.
“The victim was later confirmed dead by a team of medical doctors at the Gezawa General Hospital,” he added.
According to him, the victim slipped and fell into the open water, sustaining injuries on his body.
He said the corpse had since been handed over to the ward head of Danzaki Village, Muhammed Abdulkarim, for onward delivery to the parent of the deceased for burial.
