The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed the death of Yusha’u Usman, a 5-year-old boy who drowned after falling inside a well at Zangon Dinya in Bagwai Local Government Area of Kano State.
Saminu Abdullahi, the Public Relations Officer of the Service, said this in a statement issued to newsmen on Friday, September 3, in Kano.
Abdullahi explained that the incident happened on Thursday night.
“We received a distress call from Bichi division at about 08:30 p.m. from one Muhammad Usman and we sent our rescue team to the scene at 08.45 pm,” he said.
Abdullahi said the young boy was later brought out of the well dead.
He added that the corpse of the drowned boy has been handed over to the ward head of Zangon Dinya Bagwai, Malam Yahaya Sule.